Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — 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
