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• Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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  Evil, Infinite, Easy

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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  Soul, Feelings, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

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  Happiness, Searching For Happiness, Exception

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• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

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  Nature, Roots, Mind

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• Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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  Truth And Falsehood, Knows, Falsehood

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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  Pride, Vanity, Curiosity

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

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• If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

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  Errors, Effort, Risk

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• If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

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  Peace, Believe, Men

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• (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

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  Men, Scandal, Glory

  Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.162

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• Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Different

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• Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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• There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

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  Two, Numbers, Achievement

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• Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

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  Childhood

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.221, David C Cook

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• Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

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  Justice, Justified

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

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  Faith, Limits, Reason

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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  Business, Passion, Men

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• We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

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  Change, God, Knowledge

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• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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  Inspirational, Life, Deeds And Words

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.

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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

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  Inspirational, Fake People, Appreciation

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• There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

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  Men, Holes, Every Man

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• If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

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  Past, Thinking, Our Thoughts

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

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• We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

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  Life, Hope To Live, Arranging

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• Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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  Peace, Men, Rivers

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• Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

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  Silence, Saint, Silent

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• We like to be deceived.

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  Deception, Deceived

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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