Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they… — Blaise Pascal Civil war Copy Share Image
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)” — Blaise Pascal Brevity Copy Share Image
“We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom… — Blaise Pascal Sleep Copy Share Image
Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life. — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Breadth Copy Share Image
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. — Blaise Pascal Littles Copy Share Image
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and… — Blaise Pascal Believe 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
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
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
Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not… — Blaise Pascal Convinced Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are slaughtered each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get… — Blaise Pascal Abandoned Copy Share Image
“All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and… — Blaise Pascal Awareness Copy Share Image
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. — Blaise Pascal Drifting Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if… — Blaise Pascal Deprived Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. — Blaise Pascal Business Copy Share Image
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. — Blaise Pascal Form Copy Share Image
“ 'Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, and walk therein.' ” — Blaise Pascal Journey Copy Share Image
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. — Blaise Pascal Deny Copy Share Image
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. — Blaise Pascal All things Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is the god whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.” — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. — Blaise Pascal Different Copy Share Image
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral… — Blaise Pascal Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
“It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.” — Blaise Pascal Arrogant Copy Share Image
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — Blaise Pascal Education Copy Share Image
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver… — Blaise Pascal Compassion Copy Share Image
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find… — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
“Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.” — Blaise Pascal Abominable 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 weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me.” — Blaise Pascal Foggy Copy Share Image
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