959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it