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
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
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
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
“Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their… — Blaise Pascal Christianity 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
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Blindness Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Baseness Copy Share Image
La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important… — Blaise Pascal Career Copy Share Image
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to… — Blaise Pascal Drifting Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey… — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est… — Blaise Pascal Force 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
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
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
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
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal Falsehood Copy Share Image
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
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Evil Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own… — Blaise Pascal Sadness Copy Share Image
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. — Blaise Pascal Justice Copy Share Image
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man… — Blaise Pascal Chance Copy Share Image
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions:… — Blaise Pascal Persecution Copy Share Image
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind… — Blaise Pascal Persuaded Copy Share Image
“we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave.” — Blaise Pascal Coward Copy Share Image
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