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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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Theologian
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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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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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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