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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Eloquence
Thoughts
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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
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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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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]
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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion but opinion uses force.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
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The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.
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How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.
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