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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes (411)

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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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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
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We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
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Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
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The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason this is faith.
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.
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All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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