Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. — Blaise Pascal Bounds Copy Share Image
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other… — Blaise Pascal Disobeying Copy Share Image
I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. — Blaise Pascal Humanity Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Excess Copy Share Image
Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are slaughtered each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly,… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in… — Blaise Pascal Future Copy Share Image
“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it… — Blaise Pascal Boredom Copy Share Image
“Justice, might.—It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice… — Blaise Pascal Justice Copy Share Image
“For it is beyond doubt that there is nothing which more shocks our reason than to say that the sin of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
