Blaise Pascal
View AuthorIt is easier to bear death without thinking about it than to bear the thought of death.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe king is surrounded by people who think only of entertaining him and preventing him from thinking of himself. Because, no matter how much of a king he is, he is unhappy if he thinks about it.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorMan is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe spirit naturally believes and the will naturally loves; so that, lacking true objects, it is necessary to cling to the false.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorDescription of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorWho feels unhappy for not being a king, but a dethroned king?
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorCan there be anything more ridiculous than the claim that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water and his prince has a quarrel with mine, even though I have no quarrel with him?
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorKnow that man infinitely surpasses man.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorFor those who only desire to see, there is enough light; but for those with an opposite disposition, there is always enough darkness.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorIt's not good to be too free. It's not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorNeither contradiction is an indication of falsehood, nor the lack of contradiction is an indication of truth.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThey say that habit is a second nature. Who knows, however, if nature is not first a habit.