The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be… — Blaise Pascal Connected Copy Share Image
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make… — Blaise Pascal Assent Copy Share Image
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal Great ones Copy Share Image
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Christ 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
“God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.” — Blaise Pascal Clarity Copy Share Image
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything — Blaise Pascal Infinite Copy Share Image
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal Causes 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
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
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.… — Blaise Pascal Fragile Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are… — Blaise Pascal Examination Copy Share Image
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal Function Copy Share Image
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. — Blaise Pascal Bosoms Copy Share Image
“All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.” — Blaise Pascal Stoicism Copy Share Image
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy… — Blaise Pascal Abraham Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal… — Blaise Pascal Avenues Copy Share Image
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be… — Blaise Pascal Ifs Copy Share Image
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. — Blaise Pascal Different Copy Share Image
“It is better to know something about everything then everything about something” — Blaise Pascal Better Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Artist Copy Share Image
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it — Blaise Pascal Method Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.” — Blaise Pascal Generosity Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. — Blaise Pascal Human reason Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Four friends Copy Share Image
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal Convinced Copy Share Image
