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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (410)

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Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
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Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Each one is all in all to himself for being dead, all is dead to him.
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Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
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Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of universal education and sustenance of all humanity. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Evil is easily discovered there is an infinite variety good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.
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The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought he would be a stone or a brute.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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