Quotes By Blaise Pascal
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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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.
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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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?
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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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.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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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.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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