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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Louis de Montalte
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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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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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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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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