Blaise Pascal
Quotations
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“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.” -Blaise Pascal
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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.” -Blaise Pascal
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“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!” -Blaise Pascal
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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?” -Blaise Pascal
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“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.” -Blaise Pascal
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“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” -Blaise Pascal
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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.” -Blaise Pascal
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“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.” -Blaise Pascal
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“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.” -Blaise Pascal
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal
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