We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington. — Blaise Pascal America and americans Copy Share Image
“Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true… — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it — Blaise Pascal Appreciation Copy Share Image
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them. — Blaise Pascal Blind Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of… — Blaise Pascal Compassion Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
“There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Absurd Copy Share Image
“Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal Imagination Copy Share Image
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal Chastity Copy Share Image
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which… — Blaise Pascal Advice Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. — Blaise Pascal Men Copy Share Image
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. — Blaise Pascal Future Copy Share Image
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] — Blaise Pascal Philosophical Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the… — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Discourse Copy Share Image
God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image