“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it— memoria hospitis unius… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do… — 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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