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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
Thought
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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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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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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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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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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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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Each one is all in all to himself for being dead, all is dead to him.
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The mind must not be forced artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.
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What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
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May God never abandon me.
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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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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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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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion but opinion uses force.
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Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
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