The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal Humans Copy Share Image
“It would therefore be a good thing for us to obey laws and customs because they are laws: to know that there… — Blaise Pascal Good thing Copy Share Image
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in… — Blaise Pascal Future Copy Share Image
La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last… — Blaise Pascal Composing 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
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. — Blaise Pascal Philosopher Copy Share Image
There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which… — Blaise Pascal Absent Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Breadth Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Force Copy Share Image
We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them.… — Blaise Pascal Eating Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the… — Blaise Pascal Belittle Copy Share Image
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not… — Blaise Pascal Comfort Copy Share Image
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the… — Blaise Pascal Abundance Copy Share Image
Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life. — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself. — Blaise Pascal People Copy Share Image
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be… — Blaise Pascal Able Copy Share Image
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Leisure Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Artificial 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 Distance Copy Share Image
