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Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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BLAISE PASCAL Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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BLAISE PASCAL Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter...
BLAISE PASCAL If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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BLAISE PASCAL The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
BLAISE PASCAL It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
BLAISE PASCAL How I hate these follies of not believing in the Eucharist, &c.! If the Gospel be true, if Jesus...
BLAISE PASCAL Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
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BLAISE PASCAL The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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BLAISE PASCAL I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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BLAISE PASCAL We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCAL To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
BLAISE PASCAL To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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BLAISE PASCAL We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so ...
BLAISE PASCAL There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not fou...
BLAISE PASCAL The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no differen...
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BLAISE PASCAL We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
BLAISE PASCAL Law, without force, is impotent.
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BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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BLAISE PASCAL The war existing between the senses and reason.
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BLAISE PASCAL We like to be deceived.
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BLAISE PASCAL Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCAL Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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BLAISE PASCAL Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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BLAISE PASCAL Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
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BLAISE PASCAL The only shame is to have none
BLAISE PASCAL It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
BLAISE PASCAL The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source....
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BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
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BLAISE PASCAL Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand.
BLAISE PASCAL It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity
BLAISE PASCAL Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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BLAISE PASCAL The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
BLAISE PASCAL The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
BLAISE PASCAL Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
BLAISE PASCAL Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
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BLAISE PASCAL Little things console us because little things afflict us.
BLAISE PASCAL The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand.
BLAISE PASCAL Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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BLAISE PASCAL Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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BLAISE PASCAL Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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BLAISE PASCAL Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
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BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je...
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BLAISE PASCAL We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them ...
BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
BLAISE PASCAL It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
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BLAISE PASCAL Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil...
BLAISE PASCAL We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
BLAISE PASCAL We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
BLAISE PASCAL Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
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BLAISE PASCAL Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
BLAISE PASCAL Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
BLAISE PASCAL Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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BLAISE PASCAL The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL