“God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.” — Blaise Pascal Psychology Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Artifice 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
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. — Blaise Pascal Despise Copy Share Image
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. — Blaise Pascal Complaining Copy Share Image
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays,… — Blaise Pascal Allies Copy Share Image
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. — Blaise Pascal Being true 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
The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which… — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without… — Blaise Pascal Artistic Copy Share Image
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — Blaise Pascal Accurate Copy Share Image
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything — Blaise Pascal Nature 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
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal Physics Copy Share Image
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist. — Blaise Pascal Cease to exist Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Beautiful Copy Share Image
