Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live… — Blaise Pascal Disguise Copy Share Image
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Cases Copy Share Image
“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.” — Blaise Pascal Atoms Copy Share Image
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what… — Blaise Pascal Clarity Copy Share Image
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Commonplace Copy Share Image
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more… — Blaise Pascal Esteem Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — Blaise Pascal Infinite 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
“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do… — Blaise Pascal Human dignity Copy Share Image
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them… — Blaise Pascal Fool Copy Share Image
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Art 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
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a… — Blaise Pascal Affection Copy Share Image
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Brevity Copy Share Image
“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.” — Blaise Pascal Distraction Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Console Copy Share Image
“If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.” — Blaise Pascal Gain Copy Share Image
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Failure Copy Share Image
“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Aids Copy Share Image
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. — Blaise Pascal Arrangements Copy Share Image
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal Impact Copy Share Image
“The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.” — Blaise Pascal Foundations Copy Share Image
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. — Blaise Pascal Friend Copy Share Image
“Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.” — Blaise Pascal Knowing Copy Share Image
“Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.” — Blaise Pascal Ecclesiastes Copy Share Image
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” — Blaise Pascal Different meanings Copy Share Image
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. — Blaise Pascal Branches Copy Share Image
“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.” — Blaise Pascal Empathy Copy Share Image
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. — Blaise Pascal Bears Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from… — Blaise Pascal Escape Copy Share Image
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a… — Blaise Pascal Education Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image