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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.


Blaise Pascal

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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 Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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