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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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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Paskal Blez
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
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L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
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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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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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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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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart. - Blaise Pascal
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St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent the excitable desire is the Eve and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually criminal desire is often excited but sin is not completed till reason consents.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
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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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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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