There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal All that remains Copy Share Image
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. — Blaise Pascal Force Copy Share Image
We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Fear Copy Share Image
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search. — Blaise Pascal Search Copy Share Image
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — Blaise Pascal Feeble Copy Share Image
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. — Blaise Pascal Dependence Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it — Blaise Pascal Appreciation Copy Share Image
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them. — Blaise Pascal Blind Copy Share Image
We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. — Blaise Pascal Abandon Copy Share Image
Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington. — Blaise Pascal America and americans Copy Share Image
“Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true… — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Gets Copy Share Image
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence… — Blaise Pascal Absence Copy Share Image
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also… — Blaise Pascal Hide Copy Share Image
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps;… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both… — Blaise Pascal Certain Copy Share Image
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live… — Blaise Pascal Compelled Copy Share Image
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no… — Blaise Pascal Atoms Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Artist Copy Share Image
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and… — Blaise Pascal Born Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Birth Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or… — Blaise Pascal Action 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
What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet,… — Blaise Pascal Able Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
“For after all, what is man in creation? Is he not a mere cipher compared with the infinite, a whole compared to… — Blaise Pascal Creation Copy Share Image
All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other… — Blaise Pascal Adore Copy Share Image