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Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

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Reasonable, Ought, Declaring

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.186

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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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Confusion, Unity, Tyranny

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

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We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

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Time, Math, Long

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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

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Real, Communication, Science

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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

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Truth, Responsibility, Fighting

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Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

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Book, Men, Giving

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.96

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All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

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Mistake, Lying, Math

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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

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Inspirational, Book, Writing

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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

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Kings, Tyrants, Roi

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La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

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Things In Life, Important, Chance

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When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

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God, Thinking, Evil

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.214

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I know whom I have believed.

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Faith, Knows

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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

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Unity, Tyranny, Multitudes

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When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

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Nature, Sun, Deceiving

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The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

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Marriage, Love Is, Married

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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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True Love, Believe, Mind

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

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Heart, Brain

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Opinion is the queen of the world.

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Queens, World, Opinion

Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.125

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The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and
vigorous nutriment.

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Mind, Ridiculous, Foolish

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.513

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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

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Admiration, Painting, Vain

Pensees no. 74 (1658)

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...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

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Truth, Men, Opinion

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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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Men, Hands, Feet

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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Law, Reason, Reasonable

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

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Glory, Sweetness

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

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Thinking, Littles, Too Much

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

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