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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.


Blaise Pascal

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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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BLAISE PASCAL Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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BLAISE PASCAL Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter...
BLAISE PASCAL If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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BLAISE PASCAL The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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BLAISE PASCAL Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything i...
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BLAISE PASCAL The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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BLAISE PASCAL I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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BLAISE PASCAL However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
BLAISE PASCAL We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCAL To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
BLAISE PASCAL To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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BLAISE PASCAL People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by o...
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BLAISE PASCAL The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no differen...
BLAISE PASCAL Anyone who considers himself in this way will be seized with terror and, discovering that the mass n...
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BLAISE PASCAL What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what...
BLAISE PASCAL We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
BLAISE PASCAL Law, without force, is impotent.
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BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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BLAISE PASCAL The war existing between the senses and reason.
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BLAISE PASCAL We like to be deceived.
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BLAISE PASCAL Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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BLAISE PASCAL The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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BLAISE PASCAL Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
BLAISE PASCAL Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
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BLAISE PASCAL It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
BLAISE PASCAL If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
BLAISE PASCAL Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand.
BLAISE PASCAL It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity
BLAISE PASCAL Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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BLAISE PASCAL The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
BLAISE PASCAL Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
BLAISE PASCAL Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
BLAISE PASCAL Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in...
BLAISE PASCAL Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCAL Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in ti...
BLAISE PASCAL Little things console us because little things afflict us.
BLAISE PASCAL The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand.
BLAISE PASCAL Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
BLAISE PASCAL Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl...
BLAISE PASCAL Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCAL Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend...
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BLAISE PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
BLAISE PASCAL Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...
BLAISE PASCAL Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
BLAISE PASCAL In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...
BLAISE PASCAL I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...
BLAISE PASCAL Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
BLAISE PASCAL We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
BLAISE PASCAL If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. Ho...
BLAISE PASCAL Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend...
BLAISE PASCAL When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we...
BLAISE PASCAL Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have differen...
BLAISE PASCAL Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on what...
BLAISE PASCAL Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
BLAISE PASCAL He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres son...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe n...
BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je...
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BLAISE PASCAL We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them ...
BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
BLAISE PASCAL It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
BLAISE PASCAL We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t...
BLAISE PASCAL By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma...
BLAISE PASCAL For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil...
BLAISE PASCAL We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
BLAISE PASCAL We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
BLAISE PASCAL Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
BLAISE PASCAL People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
BLAISE PASCAL One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
BLAISE PASCAL Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
BLAISE PASCAL Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
BLAISE PASCAL Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
BLAISE PASCAL Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
BLAISE PASCAL The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCAL Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL