Blaise Pascal Quotes

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

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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? Patriotism

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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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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. Faith

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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. Faith

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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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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

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I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.

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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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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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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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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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We never love a person, but only qualities.

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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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