“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Aids Copy Share Image
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. — Blaise Pascal Arrangements Copy Share Image
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal Impact Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Console Copy Share Image
“If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.” — Blaise Pascal Gain Copy Share Image
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach… — Blaise Pascal Mind Copy Share Image
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full… — Blaise Pascal Able Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also… — Blaise Pascal Crime Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Different Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really… — Blaise Pascal Apologetics Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
“As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting,… — Blaise Pascal Forgetting Copy Share Image
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. — Blaise Pascal Abyss Copy Share Image
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” — Blaise Pascal Silence Copy Share Image
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune… — Blaise Pascal Connections Copy Share Image
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Letter Copy Share Image
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Four Copy Share Image
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against… — Blaise Pascal Against Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — Blaise Pascal Diversion Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Blunt Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Force Copy Share Image
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. — Blaise Pascal Has beens Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal Absent Copy Share Image
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Description Copy Share Image
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] — Blaise Pascal Purity Copy Share Image
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. — Blaise Pascal Blindness Copy Share Image
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.” — Blaise Pascal Cultivated Copy Share Image
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal Physics Copy Share Image