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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (411)

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What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
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Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us the charms of novelty have the same power.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
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All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.
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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
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We make an idol of truth itself for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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There are plenty of maxims in the world all that remains is to apply them.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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