The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never… — Blaise Pascal Goals Copy Share Image
“and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
“The greatest and most important thing in the world is founded on weakness. This is a remarkably sure foundation, for nothing is… — Blaise Pascal Weakness Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all… — Blaise Pascal Consequence Copy Share Image
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would… — Blaise Pascal Disclosure Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other… — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects,… — Blaise Pascal Actions Copy Share Image
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
“As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting,… — Blaise Pascal Forgetting Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really… — Blaise Pascal Apologetics Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also… — Blaise Pascal Crime Copy Share Image
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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