It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. — Blaise Pascal Free Copy Share Image
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — Blaise Pascal Causality Copy Share Image
“We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.” — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. — Blaise Pascal Disbelieve Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.” — Blaise Pascal Denial 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 Found Copy Share Image
“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.” — Blaise Pascal Majority Copy Share Image
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize… — Blaise Pascal Ifs 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 Appreciate Copy Share Image
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. — Blaise Pascal Ignorance Copy Share Image
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing. — Blaise Pascal Better Copy Share Image
“There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions… — Blaise Pascal Perishing Persecutions Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Mathematicians Copy Share Image
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — Blaise Pascal Accurate Copy Share Image
“At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will… — Blaise Pascal Heads or tails Copy Share Image
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints… — Blaise Pascal Charity Copy Share Image
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with… — Blaise Pascal Different Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Deceiving Copy Share Image
We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which… — Blaise Pascal Fear Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Animal Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“If the foot had never realized it belonged to the body, & that there never was a body on which it depended,… — Blaise Pascal Altruism Copy Share Image
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the… — Blaise Pascal Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in… — Blaise Pascal Past Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Accepted Copy Share Image
“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and… — Blaise Pascal Vanity Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by… — Blaise Pascal Bible Copy Share Image
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never… — Blaise Pascal Concerned Copy Share Image
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Arise Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires. — Blaise Pascal Giving Copy Share Image