The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted. — Blaise Pascal Argument Copy Share Image
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. — Blaise Pascal Justice Copy Share Image
Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling. — Blaise Pascal Feeling Copy Share Image
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same. — Blaise Pascal Amount Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Excess Copy Share Image
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. — Blaise Pascal Humanity Copy Share Image
I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other… — Blaise Pascal Disobeying Copy Share Image
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to… — Blaise Pascal Deny Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself. — Blaise Pascal Complaining Copy Share Image
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
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe,… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who… — Blaise Pascal Acting Copy Share Image
Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in… — Blaise Pascal Comprehending Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal After death Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal Certain 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
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Atheism Copy Share Image
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of… — Blaise Pascal Believe 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 Desire Copy Share Image
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Finesse Copy Share Image
“All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.” — Blaise Pascal Growth Copy Share Image
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal Miseries Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God. — Blaise Pascal Bravado Copy Share Image
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry. — Blaise Pascal Chase Copy Share Image
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. — Blaise Pascal Incomprehensible Copy Share Image