Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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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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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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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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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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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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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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The best defense against logic is ignorance.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
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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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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
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Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
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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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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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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.