The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal Great ones Copy Share Image
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race,… — Blaise Pascal Adam Copy Share Image
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.… — Blaise Pascal Fragile Copy Share Image
“We naturally believe we are more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference, and the visible extent… — Blaise Pascal Opposite direction Copy Share Image
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal Extraordinary Copy Share Image
“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have… — Blaise Pascal Ignorance Copy Share Image
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are… — Blaise Pascal Grief Copy Share Image
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ. — Blaise Pascal Centre Copy Share Image
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Break Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but… — Blaise Pascal Charity Copy Share Image
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the… — Blaise Pascal Annoyed Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — Blaise Pascal Life Copy Share Image
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Evil Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Failure Copy Share Image
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find… — Blaise Pascal Doe Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is the god whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.” — Blaise Pascal Pride Copy Share Image
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Brevity 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
“we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Four friends Copy Share Image