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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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Things
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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
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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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Dans une grande a me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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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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Eloquence is a painting of thought and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
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Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
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Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
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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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We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
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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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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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