If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably. — 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
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — 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
