Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
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All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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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Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
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He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.