Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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To understand is to forgive.
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
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Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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A jester, a bad character.
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.
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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.