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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (411)

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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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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
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We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
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Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?
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If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!
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We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us we shall die alone.
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
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No one is offended at not seeing everything but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart. - Blaise Pascal
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .
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We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
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