"We like to be deceived."

Pascal, Blaise on Deception
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden."

Pascal, Blaise on Deeds and Good Deeds
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Pascal, Blaise on Desire
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

Pascal, Blaise on Effort
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."

Pascal, Blaise on Enthusiasm
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

Pascal, Blaise on Evil
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on Evil
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

Pascal, Blaise on Experience
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Pascal, Blaise on Fame
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."

Pascal, Blaise on Fame
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

Pascal, Blaise on Freedom
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on God
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"The gospel to me is simply irresistible."

Pascal, Blaise on Gospel
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on Gossip
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on Gossip
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Habit is the second nature which destroys the first."

Pascal, Blaise on Habit
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"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."

Pascal, Blaise on Habit
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Pascal, Blaise on Heart
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on Humility
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Imagination decides everything."

Pascal, Blaise on Imagination
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world."

Pascal, Blaise on Imagination
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

Pascal, Blaise on Infallibility
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

Pascal, Blaise on Influence
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

Pascal, Blaise on Jesus Christ
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 5 fans >>

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

Pascal, Blaise on Kindness
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Law, without force, is impotent."

Pascal, Blaise on Law and Lawyers
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so."

Pascal, Blaise on Life and Living
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on Life and Living
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."

Pascal, Blaise on Listening
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Pascal, Blaise on Love
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."

Pascal, Blaise on Mediocrity
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on Misers and Misery
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."

Pascal, Blaise on Moderation
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed."

Pascal, Blaise on Obedience
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men."

Pascal, Blaise on Originality
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire."

Pascal, Blaise on Painters and Painting
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>