Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
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Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.
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Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
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Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
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Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
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No animal admires another animal.
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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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We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.