It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. — Blaise Pascal Inability Copy Share Image
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. — Blaise Pascal Anxiety Copy Share Image
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Confusion Copy Share Image
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday… — Blaise Pascal Achievement Copy Share Image
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience… — Blaise Pascal Essence Copy Share Image
We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them.… — Blaise Pascal Eating Copy Share Image
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on… — Blaise Pascal Amazed Copy Share Image
That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of… — Blaise Pascal Children Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Ambition Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Dues Copy Share Image
“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be… — Blaise Pascal Four friends Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the… — Blaise Pascal Heart 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
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same,… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Dozen Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Firsts Copy Share Image
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature… — Blaise Pascal Ifs Copy Share Image
“God alone is man's true good, and since man abandoned him it is a strange fact that nothing in nature has been… — Blaise Pascal Good man Copy Share Image
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the… — Blaise Pascal Abundance Copy Share Image
You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult… — Blaise Pascal Certain Copy Share Image
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all… — Blaise Pascal Alexander 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 Add Copy Share Image
So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have… — Blaise Pascal Knowing Copy Share Image
“Nature does nothing to avoid the vacuum; rather the weight of the air masses is the true reason for all these phenomena… — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
“When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply… — Blaise Pascal Hope Copy Share Image
“Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to… — Blaise Pascal Man Greatness Copy Share Image
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Class Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Absurd Copy Share Image