Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him. — Blaise Pascal Differences Copy Share Image
It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good. — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
“The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.” — Blaise Pascal Love Copy Share Image
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal Diversion 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
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be… — Blaise Pascal 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
“At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will… — Blaise Pascal Heads or tails Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Father Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Boredom 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
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me , for I can lose these qualities without… — Blaise Pascal Losing myself Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — 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
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
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
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
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. — Blaise Pascal Intelligence Copy Share Image
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