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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences. (Blaise Pascal)
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. View quote
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. View quote
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. View quote
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. View quote
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. View quote
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. View quote
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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. View quote
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. View quote
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? View quote
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Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. (Blaise Pascal)
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. View quote
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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. View quote
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. View quote
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Law, without force, is impotent. View quote
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. View quote
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. View quote
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before. View quote
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. View quote
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. View quote
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. (Blaise Pascal)
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is. View quote
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. View quote
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. View quote
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. View quote
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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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