Epigram · Philosophical literatureThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 7.3
Epigram · Philosophical literatureWe never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 7.1
Epigram · Philosophical literatureGod is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 7.0
Epigram · Philosophical literatureMen blaspheme what they do not know.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 3.9
Epigram · Philosophical literatureThe skeptical are the most credulous.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 3.9
Epigram · Philosophical literatureAll human misfortune comes from this one thing: man's being unable to sit still in a room.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 3.8
Epigram · Philosophical literatureThe last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 3.8
Epigram · Philosophical literatureMan is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 3.8
Epigram · Philosophical literatureIt is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.2
Epigram · Philosophical literatureDo you wish people to think well of you? Don't say anything.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.2
Epigram · Philosophical literatureOur nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.2
Epigram · Philosophical literatureThe state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.2
Epigram · Philosophical literatureWhen we see a natural style, we are quite surprised and delighted, for we expected to see an author and we find a man.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.1
Epigram · Philosophical literatureIf all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.1
Epigram · Philosophical literatureFor after all, what is man in nature? A nothing in respect of that which is infinite, an all in respect of nothing, a middle betwixt nothing and all.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 2.1
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