The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have… — Blaise Pascal Knowing Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we… — Blaise Pascal Arranging Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it… — Blaise Pascal Anticipate Copy Share Image
When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and… — Blaise Pascal Austerity Copy Share Image
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it — Blaise Pascal Method Copy Share Image
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. — Blaise Pascal Justice Copy Share Image
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. — Blaise Pascal Deny Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Being played Copy Share Image
“All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.” — Blaise Pascal Intelligence Copy Share Image
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling… — Blaise Pascal Found Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Four Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,… — Blaise Pascal Facts Copy Share Image
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We… — Blaise Pascal Affinity Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it. — Blaise Pascal Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal All that remains Copy Share Image
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from… — Blaise Pascal Extremes Copy Share Image