Blaise Pascal Quotes II

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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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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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
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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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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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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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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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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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 charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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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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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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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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The only shame is to have none.
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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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The self is hateful.
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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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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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