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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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Paskal Blez
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Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
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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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All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
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When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.
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What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.
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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world but it is only a profession.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
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