“Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.” — Blaise Pascal Angel Copy Share Image
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind… — Blaise Pascal Blind Copy Share Image
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Chimera Copy Share Image
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal Abyss Copy Share Image
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Ambition Copy Share Image
That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of… — Blaise Pascal Children Copy Share Image
We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them.… — Blaise Pascal Eating Copy Share Image
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday… — Blaise Pascal Achievement Copy Share Image
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience… — Blaise Pascal Essence Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are too suchsubtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Justice 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
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal Divine 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
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty 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
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 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
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. — 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
“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
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.” — Blaise Pascal How to live Copy Share Image
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it… — Blaise Pascal Tell the truth Copy Share Image
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Despair Copy Share Image
![“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/blaise-pascal-167_children_that-dog-is-mine-said-those-poor-childre_3232472.jpg)
