Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 18

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• All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love
  nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

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  Believe, Men, And Love

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

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  Humble, Understanding, Monsters

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

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• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

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  Father, Math, Long

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• The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

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  Science, Thinking, Way

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• Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

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  Knowledge, Knows, One Thing

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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  Ignorance, Vanity, Causes

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

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  Heart, Order, Mind

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

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• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

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  Math, Men, Doe

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

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  World, Care, Beneath The Surface

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• As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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  Taken, Ignorance, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

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  Hate, Men, World

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.276

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• Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Desire

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Ch. 72), 1669.

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• No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

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  Betrayal, Soul, Weakness

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• This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

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  Doubt, Obscurity, Looks

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• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

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  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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  Philosophy, Light, Morality

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

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  Inspiration, Men, Monsters

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.133, Letcetera Publishing

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• Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

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  Math, Play, Tennis

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By thought I embrace the universe.

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  Embrace, Universe

  Blaise Pascal (1947). “Pascal's pensées”

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• There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

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  Truth, Darkness, Would Be

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

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  Appearance, Reason, Inconstancy

  Blaise Pascal (2014). “Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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• All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

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  Modern Life, Able, Trouble

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• An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

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  Causes, Pleading, Wells

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

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• I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

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  Christian, Miracle, Should

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

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