Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and theologian
Found 128 thoughts of Blaise Pascal
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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Atheists ought to say what is perfectly evident; now it is not perfectly evident that the soul is material.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Since we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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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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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
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The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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Nature diversifies and imitates; art imitates and diversifies.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.
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When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.
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How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man?
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All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.
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How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!
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