We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — 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
“It is absurd of us to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It would therefore be a good thing for us to obey laws and customs because they are laws: to know that there… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they… — 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
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — 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
