Blaise Pascal Quotes

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Blaise Pascal

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : June 19, 1623

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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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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Imagination decides everything.

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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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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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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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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

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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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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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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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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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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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Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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