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
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
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
Justice and truth are too suchsubtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — 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
Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — 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
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
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
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
It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are… — 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
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — 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
“ 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
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
“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
