We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. - Blaise Pascal . View more images...
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
We never, then, love a person, but only qualities - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
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. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. - Blaise Pascal. View more images...