Blaise Pascal Quotes

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Blaise Pascal

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : June 19, 1623

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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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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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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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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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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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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