When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know… — 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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