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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room


Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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BLAISE PASCAL The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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(Translation: It is not certain that everything i...
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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 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.
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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.
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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 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 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.
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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 Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend...
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...
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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.
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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 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...
BLAISE PASCAL