Age Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind…

— Blaise Pascal

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

— Blaise Pascal

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…

— Blaise Pascal

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

— Blaise Pascal

Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives

— Blaise Pascal

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the…

— Blaise Pascal

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

— Blaise Pascal

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

— Blaise Pascal

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

— Blaise Pascal

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

— Blaise Pascal

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…

— Blaise Pascal

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

— Blaise Pascal