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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

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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
Search
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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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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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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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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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
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Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
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That dog is mine said those poor children that place in the sun is mine such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
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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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Symmetry is what we see at a glance based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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