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• The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

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  Faithful, Church, Ransom

  Blaise Pascal (1846). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.259

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• Not to be mad is another form of madness

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  Inspirational, Mad, Madness

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• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

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• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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  Truth, Contradiction, Mathematics

  "Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth". Book by George Englebretsen (p. 153), 2006.

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• Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

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  Men, Independence, Needs

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• It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

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  Freedom, Greed, Want

  "Pensées".

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• Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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  Nature, Math, Garden

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• We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

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  Math, Vanity, People

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

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• We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

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  God, Ignorant, Limits

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Continuous eloquence is tedious.

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  Teaching, Eloquence, Tedious

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• How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

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  Vanity, Painting, Vain

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• We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

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  Love, Idols, Age

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

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  Blindness, Prove, Zeal

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thought of Blaise Pascal: Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul...”

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• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

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  Art, Believe, Men

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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• We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

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  Vanity, Wish, World

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.90

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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  Time, Learning, Usual

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

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  Greatness, Men, Self

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.66

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• There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

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  Beauty, Song, Strong

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

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  Beauty, Healing, Medicine

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.

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  Beautiful, Exercise, Men

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• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

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  Passion, Two, Deception

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

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• A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

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  Comfort, Littles, Little Things

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam, Edward Bickersteth (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.121

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• Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

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  Cutting, Small Objects, Imagination

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

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• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

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  Sadness, Reflecting Upon, Ruins

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• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

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  Spring, Joy, May

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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