Blaise Pascal Quotes
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We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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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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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Vanity is but the surface.
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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We like to be deceived.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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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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Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.