Quotes By Blaise Pascal
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
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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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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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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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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