The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Appearance Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Cripples Copy Share Image
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. — Blaise Pascal Intelligence Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Ambition Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous. Pascal, Pensées” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Boredom Copy Share Image
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the… — Blaise Pascal Approval Copy Share Image
“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views… — Blaise Pascal Advantage 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Discourse Copy Share Image
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Funny Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Despair Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our… — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Affliction Copy Share Image
The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material. — Blaise Pascal Atheism Copy Share Image
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Confusion Copy Share Image
