Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 12

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• All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

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  Death, Knows, Dies

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

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  God, Forever, Eternal

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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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  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

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  Divine Justice, Spirit, Infinite

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

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  Truth, Heart, Trying

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

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  Giving, Soldier, Hard Life

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

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  Quarry, Knows

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• Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

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  Brave, Deeds

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• You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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  Enemy, Religion, Favour

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

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  People, Weak

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.14, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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  Men, Evil, Inability

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• He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

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  Believe, Giving, Grace

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• The stream is always purer at its source.
  [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

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  Purity, Source, Streams

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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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  Love, Wedding, Men

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• To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

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  Doubt, Unfair, Duty

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

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  Running, Abyss, Seeing

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

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  Humility, Pride, Math

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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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  Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

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• It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

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  Heart, Light, Proof

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• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

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  Art, Destiny, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The war existing between the senses and reason.

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  War, Conflict, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

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  Desire, Misery, Certainty

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.136, Letcetera Publishing

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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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  Uncertain, Certain, Translations

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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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  Pain, Vanity, Strange

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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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  Writing, Style, Natural

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