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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (411)

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Custom determines what is agreeable.
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The mind has its arrangement it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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May God never abandon me.
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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
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Le nez de Cle opa tre: s'il e u t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
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Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
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Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
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Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. 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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Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
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Man is neither angel nor beast.
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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.
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