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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (410)

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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched but it is being great to know that one is wretched.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Eloquence is a painting of thought and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.
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Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
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