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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Louis de Montalte
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We are not satisfied with real life we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
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To find recreation in amusements is not happiness for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.
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If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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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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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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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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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
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Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
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We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us we shall die alone.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
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