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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (410)

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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Not to be mad is another form of madness
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One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles peu approfondissement les choses.]
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
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