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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

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Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

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Spiritual, Passion, Math

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No animal admires another animal.

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Animal, Pet, Admire

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The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

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Men, Order, Religion

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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

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Drains, Feels

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

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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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Heart, Listening, Ears

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

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Death, Men, Agony

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.369

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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

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Philosophy, Giving, Needs

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

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Passion, Men, Spirit

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Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

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Math, Depth, Demand

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That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

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Love Is, Thinking, Needs

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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

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Math, Religion, Trouble

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

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Judging, Sake, Authority

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

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Moving, Rivers, Wish

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From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

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Should Have, Mind, Doe

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Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

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Math, Hands, Judging

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Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

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Different, Earth, Faces

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I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

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Work, Distance, Math

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One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

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Dream, Sleep, Men

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.96

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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

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Fall, Perfect, Reason

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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

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Men, Race, Progress

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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

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Philosophy, Philosophical, Ridicule

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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Men, Lost Friendship, Lost Everything

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Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

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Nature, Reality, Men

Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

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Spring, War, Passion

"Pensées and Other Writings".

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