There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — 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
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — 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
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