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Blaise Pascal Quotes(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8WsIg-z1XVAxhOpEU-OC7Cj8TLoltdojO7ZegPN2BHE6t8wpI)
A French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. Blaise Pascal, was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a Tax Collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. Here are some famous quotes by Blaise Pascal.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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No animal admires another animal.
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Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.
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All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
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Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
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Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
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The heart has its reasons of which the mind knows nothing.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
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Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
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Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
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If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.
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Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
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I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
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Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary great minds with the ordinary.
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Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
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We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
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As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.
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If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.
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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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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
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Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
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I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
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Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.
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Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without 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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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine though I have not quarrelled with him?
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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 relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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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.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom gloom sorrow chagrin resentment and despair.