All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch. — Blaise Pascal Greatness Copy Share Image
“Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another.… — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. — Blaise Pascal Different 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 multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the… — Blaise Pascal Confusion Copy Share Image
“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it… — Blaise Pascal Conclusion 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
“We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we… — Blaise Pascal Remain Humble 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
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Function Copy Share Image
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. — Blaise Pascal Beautiful Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Audience 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
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — Blaise Pascal Being true Copy Share Image
“If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us as much as the objects we see every day. And… — Blaise Pascal Dreams 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
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal Conviction Copy Share Image
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon… — Blaise Pascal Accidents Copy Share Image
“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me , for I can lose these qualities without… — Blaise Pascal Losing myself Copy Share Image
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal Inability 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
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal Arrogant Copy Share Image
