Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only… — Blaise Pascal Capable Copy Share Image
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion… — Blaise Pascal Able Copy Share Image
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal Cures Copy Share Image
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. — Blaise Pascal Apology Copy Share Image
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk,… — Blaise Pascal Branches Copy Share Image
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
“In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects,… — Blaise Pascal Actions Copy Share Image
What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher.… — Blaise Pascal Duration Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves,… — Blaise Pascal Condemn Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses,… — Blaise Pascal Afar Copy Share Image
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the… — Blaise Pascal Aim Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Despair Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it… — Blaise Pascal Tell the truth Copy Share Image
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. — Blaise Pascal Attractive Copy Share Image
“All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.” — Blaise Pascal How to live Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Every man Copy Share Image
“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
“Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were,… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed. — Blaise Pascal End of the world Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity. — Blaise Pascal Aim Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former… — Blaise Pascal Disobey Copy Share Image
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. — Blaise Pascal Knowing Copy Share Image
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Function Copy Share Image
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Leisure Copy Share Image
“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them… — Blaise Pascal Greater Evil Copy Share Image
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. — Blaise Pascal Little Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere — Blaise Pascal Infinite Copy Share Image
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — Blaise Pascal Aim Copy Share Image
“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.” — Blaise Pascal Ball Copy Share Image
