Blaise Pascal quotes - page 5

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. (Blaise Pascal)

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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Vanity is but the surface.

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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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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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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. (Blaise Pascal)

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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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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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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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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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. (Blaise Pascal)

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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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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Blaise Pascal

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Occupation: French Mathematician
Born: June 19, 1623
Died: August 19, 1662
Quotes count: 342
Wikipedia: Blaise Pascal

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