Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God. — Blaise Pascal Bravado 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
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal Divine 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 Copy Share Image
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal 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 Copy Share Image
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Art 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
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
Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he… — Blaise Pascal 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I… — Blaise Pascal Fathers Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
“Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I see the terrifying spaces of the universe that enclose me, and I find myself attached to a corner of this vast… — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Fools Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Brevity Copy Share Image
“All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.” — Blaise Pascal Growth Copy Share Image
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal Miseries Copy Share Image
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. — Blaise Pascal Darkness Copy Share Image
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment. — Blaise Pascal Gratitude Copy Share Image
