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• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

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  Irresistible

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• True eloquence scorns eloquence.

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  Eloquence, Scorn

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240

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• There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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  Real, Being Real, Should

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.284

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• It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Angel

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

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  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

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  Heart, Understanding, Divine

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• Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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  Inspirational, Littles, Little Things

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

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  Love, Memories, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

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  Passion, Men, Boredom

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• I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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  Friendship, Gossip, World

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• The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

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  Thinking, Limits, Ends

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• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

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  Nature, Miracle, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

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  Jesus, Men, Darkness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

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  Believe, Evil, Blindness

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

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  Heart, Grace, Mind

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.68, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

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  Memorial Day, War, Rivers

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• Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

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  Annoyed, Secret, Found

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

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• Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

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  Death, Painful, Contemplation

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• Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

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  Nature, Firsts, Habit

  "Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

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• How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

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  Heart, Men, Hollow

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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  Amusement, Sake, Deceiving

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• Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

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  Travel, Lying, Journey

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• The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

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  Art, Order, Justice

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

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• Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

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  Pain, Reflection, Self

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