The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. — 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
“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
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. — 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
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“ Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at… — 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
“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
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
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
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — 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
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more… — 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
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we may never recoganize it — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — 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
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without… — 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 truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. — 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
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are too suchsubtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — 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
![“[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b99/blaise-pascal-167_boast_unbelievers-think-they-have-made-great-e_1830192.jpg)
