Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and theologian
Found 128 thoughts of Blaise Pascal
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves on this subject, whereon depends all our conduct. Therefore among those who do not believe, I make a vast difference between those who strive with all their power to inform themselves an
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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
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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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It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
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I lay is down as a fact that if all men know what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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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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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.
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Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
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The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
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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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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human a
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
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The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Immateriality of the soul, philosophers who have mastered their passions. What matter could do that?
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There are two types of minds - the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
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When we see a natural style, we are quite surprised and delighted, for we expected to see an author and we find a man.
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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