Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and theologian
Found 128 thoughts of Blaise Pascal
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
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Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
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If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.
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Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
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There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life but
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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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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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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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
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