The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est… — 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
