Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. — Blaise Pascal Philosopher Copy Share Image
“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.” — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires. — Blaise Pascal Giving Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. — Blaise Pascal Advocate 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 Copy Share Image
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. — Blaise Pascal Clever Copy Share Image
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?” — Blaise Pascal Humanity Copy Share Image
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but… — Blaise Pascal Charity Copy Share Image
“Do not be astonished to see simple people believing without argument. God makes them love him and hate themselves. He inclines their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
“To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and… — Blaise Pascal Noble Copy Share Image
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
“If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us as much as the objects we see every day. And… — Blaise Pascal Dream Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“What is the self? A man goes to the window to see the people passing by; if I pass by, can I… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat. — Blaise Pascal Funny Copy Share Image