It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him. — Blaise Pascal Literature Copy Share Image
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't… — Blaise Pascal Comparison Copy Share Image
Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme… — Blaise Pascal Back again Copy Share Image
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers… — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal Blessing Copy Share Image
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves,… — Blaise Pascal Men Copy Share Image
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. — Blaise Pascal Faith 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 that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.” — Blaise Pascal Growth Copy Share Image
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation. — Blaise Pascal Causality 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
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Battle Copy Share Image
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
“In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects,… — Blaise Pascal Actions Copy Share Image
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never… — Blaise Pascal Concerned Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be… — Blaise Pascal Great Copy Share Image
“We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.” — Blaise Pascal Search for knowledge Copy Share Image
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image