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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
Things
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Search
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason this is faith.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
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All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
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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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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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Le nez de Cle opa tre: s'il e u t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
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It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
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I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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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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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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