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I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

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Men, Thinking, Hands

Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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Men, Evil, Rooms

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Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

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Movement, Absolutes

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To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

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Philosophy, Scorn

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

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Fall, Mean, Vices

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.49, Letcetera Publishing

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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

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Science, Winning, Mind

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

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Continued eloquence is wearisome.

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Eloquence

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Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

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Sight, Misery, Instinct

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

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Believe, Witness, Throat

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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

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Art, Fun, Philosophy

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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

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Greatness, Vanity, People

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

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Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

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Passion, Heart, Sadness

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

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Giving, Dignity

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

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Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

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Art, Independent, Natural

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

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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

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Nature, World, Visible

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

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The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

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Talking, Imagination, Soul

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

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Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

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Soul, Great Souls

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The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

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Evil, Gist, Divine

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Admiration spoils all from infancy.

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Admiration, Infancy, Spoil

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

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Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

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Law, Imagination, Earth

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

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Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

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Passion, Men, Deception

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

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God, Bravery, Cowardice

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Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

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Anniversary, Age, Wedding Anniversary

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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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Our Actions, Causes, Morality

Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “Penses”, Hackett Publishing

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Born: June 19, 1623
Died: August 19, 1662
Occupation: Mathematician
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