Blaise Pascal Quotes
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It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.
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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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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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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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Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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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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We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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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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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
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(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.