Blaise Pascal
View AuthorReason works slowly, and with so many considerations, on so many principles, that it often falls asleep or gets lost at any moment. Passion works in an instant.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe greatness of a man lies in knowing how to recognize his own smallness.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThere are only two classes of consistent people: those who enjoy God because they believe in him, and those who suffer because they do not possess him.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe conscience is the best moral book we have.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorOur imagination enlarges the present time so much that we turn eternity into nothing, and nothing into eternity.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorWe never truly live, but instead we hope to live; and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we never are.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorJustice over force is impotence, force without justice is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorTwo excesses: excluding reason, admitting nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorOur nature is in motion. Absolute rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorNature has perfections to show that it is an image of God, and imperfections to prove that it is only an image.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorMorality is the science par excellence; it is the art of living well and being happy.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorI have made this letter longer than usual because I have no time to make it shorter.