Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
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
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal Function 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
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
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 supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Function Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they… — Blaise Pascal Civil war 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 last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon… — Blaise Pascal Bloody 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
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
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
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
“The brutes do not admire each other. A horse does not admire his companion. Not that there is no rivalry between them… — Blaise Pascal Horse 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
Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient… — Blaise Pascal Believe 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
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
“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
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Ceremony Copy Share Image
It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are… — Blaise Pascal Truth Copy Share Image
