Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Causes Copy Share Image
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — Blaise Pascal Aim Copy Share Image
“It is absurd of us to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will… — Blaise Pascal Business Copy Share Image
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would… — Blaise Pascal Father Copy Share Image
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I… — Blaise Pascal Life Copy Share Image
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal Imagination Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Baseness Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. — Blaise Pascal Form Copy Share Image
“The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.” — Blaise Pascal Miracles Copy Share Image
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Ancient greece Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Being Copy Share Image
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. — Blaise Pascal Arrangements Copy Share Image
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.” — Blaise Pascal Fear Copy Share Image
“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal Cures 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
