Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
“Alergăm fără încetare spre prăpastie după ce am aşezat ceva în faţa noastră pentru a ne împiedica să o vedem.” — Blaise Pascal Amor Copy Share Image
“The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Battle Copy Share Image
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience. — Blaise Pascal Conscience Copy Share Image
L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. — Blaise Pascal Duty Copy Share Image
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the… — Blaise Pascal Approval Copy Share Image
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it,… — Blaise Pascal Demonstration Copy Share Image
Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile… — Blaise Pascal Chimera Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Ceremony Copy Share Image
It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are… — Blaise Pascal Truth Copy Share Image
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are… — Blaise Pascal If there is a god Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Being real Copy Share Image
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Leisure Copy Share Image
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed. — Blaise Pascal End of the world Copy Share Image
“Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were,… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Four friends Copy Share Image
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
