Blaise Pascal
View AuthorMan has illusions like the bird has wings. That's what sustains him.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorMediocrity is the only thing that suits. This has been established by the majority, and it bites anyone who escapes from it in any way.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe strings that tie the respect of one for another are, in general, strings of necessity.
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.