Blaise Pascal Quotes

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Blaise Pascal

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : June 19, 1623

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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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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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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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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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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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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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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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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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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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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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 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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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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