Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
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Imagination decides everything.
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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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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.