We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. — Blaise Pascal Abyss Copy Share Image
The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach… — Blaise Pascal Mind Copy Share Image
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Eloquence 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
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be… — Blaise Pascal Four friends Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
“All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this… — Blaise Pascal Hate Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus… — Blaise Pascal Balance Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Confusion Copy Share Image
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. — Blaise Pascal Anxiety Copy Share Image
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. — Blaise Pascal Heaven Copy Share Image
“When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.” — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it. — Blaise Pascal Lies Copy Share Image
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.” — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Conversion Copy Share Image
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Differences Copy Share Image
