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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“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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“Pensées”
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1670
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“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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“Pensées”
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1670
“Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Nothing gives certainty but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
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