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Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.


Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL The property of power is to protect.
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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.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything i...
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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 Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a differ...
BLAISE PASCAL I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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BLAISE PASCAL However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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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 only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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BLAISE PASCAL Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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BLAISE PASCAL I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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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 Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...
BLAISE PASCAL Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
BLAISE PASCAL In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...
BLAISE PASCAL I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...
BLAISE PASCAL Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
BLAISE PASCAL We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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BLAISE PASCAL When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we...
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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 By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma...
BLAISE PASCAL For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
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...
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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.
BLAISE PASCAL Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
BLAISE PASCAL Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
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.
BLAISE PASCAL Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
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...
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