There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
