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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (411)

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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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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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If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.
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Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
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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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Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.
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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
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What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
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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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From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.
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The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
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Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.
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Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
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A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
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We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence a meridian decides the truth.
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