Blaise Pascal Quotes

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
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Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
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All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
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The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.
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As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.
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The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.
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Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
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The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
Blaise Pascal
If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
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Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.
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Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
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It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.
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The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom gloom sorrow chagrin resentment and despair.
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If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.
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Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
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Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
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The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
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Faith is a gift of God.
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It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
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It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
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Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
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Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
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Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
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We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
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No animal admires another animal.
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Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
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I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho
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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
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Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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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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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.
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I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.
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