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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (410)

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Eloquence is the painting of thought.
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To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]
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(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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The property of power is to protect.
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It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
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We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.
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I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.
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Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well this is the principle of morals.
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Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
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St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent the excitable desire is the Eve and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually criminal desire is often excited but sin is not completed till reason consents.
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