A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. — Blaise Pascal Comfort Copy Share Image
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Funny Copy Share Image
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal Able Copy Share Image
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement! — Blaise Pascal Excrement Copy Share Image
Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him. — Blaise Pascal Dead Copy Share Image
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. — Blaise Pascal Corrupt Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous. Pascal, Pensées” — Blaise Pascal Righteous Men Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it. — Blaise Pascal Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. — Blaise Pascal Exists Copy Share Image
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal Extraordinary Copy Share Image
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable… — Blaise Pascal Custom Copy Share Image
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? — Blaise Pascal Affront Copy Share Image
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
There are two types of minds, the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly,… — Blaise Pascal Flexibility Copy Share Image
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of… — Blaise Pascal Absurd 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
“Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone… — Blaise Pascal Blind Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us… — Blaise Pascal Humanity Copy Share Image
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he… — Blaise Pascal Accounts Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Advantage Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Awake Copy Share Image
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about… — Blaise Pascal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to know about everything, we must know a little about everything, because… — Blaise Pascal Knowing Copy Share Image
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness. — Blaise Pascal Approve Copy Share Image
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image