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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (410)

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
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The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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We like to be deceived.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
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All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.
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All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.
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