“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.” — Blaise Pascal Denial Copy Share Image
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
“What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Allure 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
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable… — Blaise Pascal Hope Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Chaos Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence… — Blaise Pascal Absence Copy Share Image
“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps;… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also… — Blaise Pascal 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 Ethics Copy Share Image
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Abstract Copy Share Image
“The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural. ...Out… — Blaise Pascal Generosity Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Beauty 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 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
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Community Copy Share Image
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — Blaise Pascal Causality Copy Share Image
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.” — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal Blessing Copy Share Image
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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