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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
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All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.
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We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence a meridian decides the truth.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
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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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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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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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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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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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Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well this is the principle of morals.
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If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
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All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
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