Quotes By Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
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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.
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
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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.
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Blaise Pascal