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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

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
Look
Looks
Wants
Found
Truth

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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
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Le nez de Cle opa tre: s'il e u t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
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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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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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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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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles peu approfondissement les choses.]
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The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
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