[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified… — Blaise Pascal Alarms Copy Share Image
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is. — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. — Blaise Pascal Dread Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the… — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you… — Blaise Pascal Advantage Copy Share Image
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience. — Blaise Pascal Conscience Copy Share Image
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have… — Blaise Pascal Annoying Copy Share Image
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat. — Blaise Pascal Funny Copy Share Image
“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.” — Blaise Pascal Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
“The motions of Grace, the hardness of heart; external circumstances.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.” — Blaise Pascal Pride Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Book 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
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal Each day Copy Share Image
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. — Blaise Pascal Childhood Copy Share Image
The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but… — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our… — Blaise Pascal Arms Copy Share Image
Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps… — Blaise Pascal Effort Copy Share Image
Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington. — Blaise Pascal America and americans Copy Share Image
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. — Blaise Pascal Duty Copy Share Image