“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Amusement 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
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of… — Blaise Pascal Compassion 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
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Blunt Copy Share Image
“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it— memoria hospitis unius… — Blaise Pascal Life 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
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides… — Blaise Pascal Love Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Chaos Copy Share Image
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. — Blaise Pascal Found Copy Share Image
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. — Blaise Pascal Arena 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
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to… — Blaise Pascal Deny Copy Share Image
“The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural. ...Out… — Blaise Pascal Generosity Copy Share Image
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at… — Blaise Pascal Beast 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
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Believer Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Accommodate Copy Share Image
