“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — 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
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all… — 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
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — 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