Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal

The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is distraction, yet that is the greatest of our wretchednesses.

Blaise Pascal

The past and the present are our means ; the future alone is our end. Thus we never live, but we hope to live.

Blaise Pascal

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Blaise Pascal

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Blaise Pascal

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.

Blaise Pascal

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal