Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
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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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The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
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The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
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Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.
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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
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Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
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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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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.