The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement! — Blaise Pascal Excrement Copy Share Image
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal Humans Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“ Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the… — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.… — Blaise Pascal Fragile Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal After death Copy Share Image
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a… — Blaise Pascal Causality Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Abhorrence Copy Share Image
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It would therefore be a good thing for us to obey laws and customs because they are laws: to know that there… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Funny Copy Share Image
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. — Blaise Pascal Comfort Copy Share Image
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants. — Blaise Pascal Avarice Copy Share Image
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image