Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 6

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• If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

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  Religious, Believe, Doe

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• Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

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  Change, Continuity

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

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  Amusement, Deceiving, Graves

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.94

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• The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

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  Heart, Pascal, Reason

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• Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

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  Giving, Complaining, Thanks

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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  Different, Effects, Different Meanings

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.38, tredition

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• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

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  Happiness, Knowing, Silence

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• The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

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  Ocean, Pebbles, Affected

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• All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

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  Lying, Dignity, Our Thoughts

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• The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

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  Politics, Captains, Ships

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• No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

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  Kings, Taken, Self

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• Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

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  Confusion, Unity, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

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  Greatness, Misery, Prove

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• It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

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  Victory, Delight, Contests

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• Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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  Reason, Reason To Love

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• The property of power is to protect.

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  Power, Protect, Property

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.103, Letcetera Publishing

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• Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

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  Fear Not, Ifs

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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  Time, Believe, Numbers

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

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  Faith, Men, Made

  Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “PensŽes”, Hackett Publishing

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• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

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  Advice, Matter, Way

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• Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

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  Wise, Fashion, Men

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• Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

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  Men, Thinking, Morality

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• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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  Mind, Dull, Mathematical

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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  Lying, Duplicity, Dishonesty

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

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  Lying, People, People Who Lie

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.136, Oxford University Press, USA

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