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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Blaise Pascal

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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
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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
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Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
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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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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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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
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The Stoics say, Retire within yourselves it is there you will find your rest. And that is not true. Others say, Go out of yourselves seek happiness in amusement. And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
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Dans une grande a me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
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Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
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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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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
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