“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal Precipice Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and… — Blaise Pascal Know Copy Share Image
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad… — Blaise Pascal Accepting Copy Share Image
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience. — Blaise Pascal Conscience Copy Share Image
L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always… — Blaise Pascal Beau Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Being real Copy Share Image
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves… — Blaise Pascal Common Copy Share Image
“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other… — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Being played Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair.… — Blaise Pascal Knowledge Copy Share Image
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that… — Blaise Pascal Cold Copy Share Image
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Chains Copy Share Image
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of… — Blaise Pascal Birth Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. — Blaise Pascal Duty Copy Share Image
“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in… — Blaise Pascal Rest Copy Share Image
“The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Battle Copy Share Image
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Differences Copy Share Image
Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
“Alergăm fără încetare spre prăpastie după ce am aşezat ceva în faţa noastră pentru a ne împiedica să o vedem.” — Blaise Pascal Amor Copy Share Image
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our… — Blaise Pascal Arms Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Conversion Copy Share Image
Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Approved Copy Share Image
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.” — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the… — Blaise Pascal Annoyed Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it. — Blaise Pascal Lies Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be… — Blaise Pascal Great Copy Share Image
“When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.” — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. — Blaise Pascal Heaven Copy Share Image
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. — Blaise Pascal Different Copy Share Image
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not… — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
![“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/665/blaise-pascal-167_curiosity_77-pride-curiosity-is-only-vanity-we-usu_158938.jpg)
