“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”
– Blaise Pascal
“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
– Blaise Pascal
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”
– Blaise Pascal
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
– Blaise Pascal
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
– Blaise Pascal
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Imagination decides everything.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”
– Blaise Pascal