How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Being true Copy Share Image
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are… — Blaise Pascal If there is a god Copy Share Image
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to know about everything, we must know a little about everything, because… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. — Blaise Pascal Failing Copy Share Image
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in… — Blaise Pascal Time Copy Share Image
“Why should I choose to divide my ethics into four rather than six? Why should I define virtue as four, or two,… — Blaise Pascal Business Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God — Blaise Pascal God 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
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its… — Blaise Pascal Cutting 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 Copy Share Image
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to… — Blaise Pascal Forgiveness Copy Share Image
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants. — Blaise Pascal Avarice Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — Blaise Pascal Deceit Copy Share Image
“At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will… — Blaise Pascal Heads or tails Copy Share Image
“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own… — Blaise Pascal Sadness Copy Share Image
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank. — Blaise Pascal Diminish Copy Share Image
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them. — Blaise Pascal Blind Copy Share Image