“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — 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,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — 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
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. — 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
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.] — 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
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all… — 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
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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