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• We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

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  Faith, Spiritual, Sleep

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

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  Heart, Giving, Reason

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• Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

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  Jesus, Useless, Impossible

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• Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

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  Believe, Men, Inward

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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  Nature, Reason, Skeptic

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• Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

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  Vanity, Curiosity, Shows

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 152, 1669.

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• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

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  Faith, Silent, Deny

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

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• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

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  Death, Fate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

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  Greatness, Men, Circles

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

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• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

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  Apology, Praying, Excuse

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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  Stupid, Justice, Tools

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

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  Strong, Childhood, Immaturity

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

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  Struggle, Blessing, Boredom

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

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

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  Love, Inspiring, Inspirational Life

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• It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

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  Thinking, Law, People

  Blaise Pascal, Richard Henry Popkin (1989). “Pascal selections”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

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  Heart, Math, Reason

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

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• The stream is always purer at its source.

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  Purity, Source, Streams

  "Lettres Provinciales". IV, 1657.

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• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

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  Atheist, Loss, Knowing

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• The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

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  Christian, Environmental, And Love

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.294

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• There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

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  Love, Math, Views

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• Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

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  Feelings, Sentiments, Reasoning

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• There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

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  Vanity, Arena, Form

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• Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

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  Sides, May, Orthodoxy

  Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.183

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• Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

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  Mean, Eye, Interest

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• Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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  Law, Justice, Examination

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

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