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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.


Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL The war existing between the senses and reason.
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BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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BLAISE PASCAL Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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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 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 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 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.]
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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 Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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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 Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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