Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and theologian
Found 128 thoughts of Blaise Pascal
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Men despise religion; they hate it and fear it is true.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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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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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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