Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy… — Blaise Pascal Abraham Copy Share Image
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.” — Blaise Pascal Stoicism Copy Share Image
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which… — Blaise Pascal Instinct Copy Share Image
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.… — Blaise Pascal 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
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Class 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 do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
“When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply… — Blaise Pascal Hope Copy Share Image
“It is better to know something about everything then everything about something” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Artist Copy Share Image
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.” — Blaise Pascal Generosity Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
“If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. — Blaise Pascal Arrangements Copy Share Image
“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal Impact Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Failure Copy Share Image
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. — Blaise Pascal Friend Copy Share Image
“Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.” — Blaise Pascal Foundations Copy Share Image
“Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.” — Blaise Pascal Ecclesiastes Copy Share Image
“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.” — Blaise Pascal Empathy Copy Share Image
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from… — Blaise Pascal Escape Copy Share Image
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
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