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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 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, “Pensées” - 1670

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 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, “Pensées” - 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, “Pensées” - 1670

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 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, “Pensées” - 1670

“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 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, “Pensées” - 1670

“Nothing gives certainty but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

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