Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be… — 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
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — 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
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — 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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