All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. — Blaise Pascal Apology Copy Share Image
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of… — Blaise Pascal Birth Copy Share Image
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Chains Copy Share Image
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that… — Blaise Pascal Cold Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair.… — Blaise Pascal Knowledge Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Boredom Copy Share Image
Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal Physics Copy Share Image
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] — Blaise Pascal Purity Copy Share Image
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. — Blaise Pascal Blindness Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — Blaise Pascal Diversion Copy Share Image
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune… — Blaise Pascal Connections Copy Share Image
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” — Blaise Pascal Silence Copy Share Image
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image