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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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
Nature
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Men
Thinking
Reed
Reeds
Feeble
Inspiring

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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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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
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If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.
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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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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion but opinion uses force.
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We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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You gave me health that I might serve you and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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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 stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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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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