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
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — 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
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — 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
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