All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude. — Blaise Pascal Evil Copy Share Image
“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.” — Blaise Pascal Distress Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. — Blaise Pascal Heresy Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. — Blaise Pascal Judging Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. — Blaise Pascal Men Copy Share Image
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which… — Blaise Pascal Advice Copy Share Image
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. — Blaise Pascal Future Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Discourse Copy Share Image
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal Imagination Copy Share Image
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” — Blaise Pascal Cleopatra Copy Share Image
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others. — Blaise Pascal Censure Copy Share Image
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly… — Blaise Pascal Consequence Copy Share Image
“Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about… — Blaise Pascal Know Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
“There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at… — Blaise Pascal Diverse Copy Share Image
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space… — Blaise Pascal All time Copy Share Image
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you… — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Abhorrence Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Accustomed Copy Share Image
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We… — Blaise Pascal Affinity Copy Share Image
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It… — Blaise Pascal Angel Copy Share Image
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to… — Blaise Pascal Consciousness Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Admire Copy Share Image