The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it. — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further. — Blaise Pascal Education Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous - Pascal” — Blaise Pascal Righteous Men Copy Share Image
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation. — Blaise Pascal Causality Copy Share Image
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. — Blaise Pascal Arise Copy Share Image
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far… — Blaise Pascal Contemplation Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul… — Blaise Pascal Different Copy Share Image
If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you… — Blaise Pascal Advantage Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
“La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing… — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To… — Blaise Pascal Abandon Copy Share Image
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the… — Blaise Pascal Belittle Copy Share Image
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have… — Blaise Pascal Annoying Copy Share Image
“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.” — Blaise Pascal Humor Copy Share Image
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but… — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
“God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.” — Blaise Pascal Clarity Copy Share Image
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything — Blaise Pascal Infinite Copy Share Image
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are… — Blaise Pascal Examination Copy Share Image
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal Function Copy Share Image
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make… — Blaise Pascal Assent Copy Share Image
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be… — Blaise Pascal Connected Copy Share Image
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal Great ones 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
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” — Blaise Pascal Different meanings Copy Share Image
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. — Blaise Pascal Branches Copy Share Image
“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.” — Blaise Pascal Empathy Copy Share Image
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. — Blaise Pascal Bears Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from… — Blaise Pascal Escape Copy Share Image
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
“Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.” — Blaise Pascal Ecclesiastes Copy Share Image
“The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.” — Blaise Pascal Foundations Copy Share Image
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. — Blaise Pascal Friend Copy Share Image
“Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.” — Blaise Pascal Knowing Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Failure Copy Share Image