“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.” — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment. — Blaise Pascal Gratitude Copy Share Image
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. — Blaise Pascal Darkness Copy Share Image
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. — Blaise Pascal Philosopher Copy Share Image
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
“The motions of Grace, the hardness of heart; external circumstances.” — Blaise Pascal Grace Copy Share Image
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Men Copy Share Image
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Creativity Copy Share Image
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the… — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
“ Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.” — Blaise Pascal Slowly Understand Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal Humans Copy Share Image
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore… — Blaise Pascal Augustine Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Boast Copy Share Image
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of… — Blaise Pascal Quarrel Copy Share Image
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its… — Blaise Pascal Cutting Copy Share Image
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Adapting Copy Share Image
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age… — Blaise Pascal Age 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 Descartes Copy Share Image
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing… — Blaise Pascal Infinity Copy Share Image
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in… — Blaise Pascal Astonishing Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
“Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed… — Blaise Pascal Infinitely Copy Share Image
“I see the terrifying spaces of the universe that enclose me, and I find myself attached to a corner of this vast… — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have… — Blaise Pascal Ignorance Copy Share Image
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at… — Blaise Pascal Beast Copy Share Image
“In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it… — Blaise Pascal Identity Copy Share Image
“For, after all, what is man in nature? ...a middle point between all and nothing...What else can he do, then, but perceive… — Blaise Pascal Infinity Copy Share Image
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. — Blaise Pascal Addiction Copy Share Image
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force. — Blaise Pascal Force Copy Share Image
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you. — Blaise Pascal Appreciation Copy Share Image
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me” — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him. — Blaise Pascal Literature Copy Share Image