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Inspirational Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal notes that reading too fast or too slow prevents understanding, and that the heart, not reason, perceives God. He claims a God‑shaped vacuum exists in every heart and that knowing a little about many things is better than knowing everything about one. His thoughts also stress that motion is essential for life.

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Custom determines what is agreeable.

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Continuous eloquence is tedious.

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A jester, a bad character.

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No animal admires another animal.

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Look for the truth, it wants to be found…

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Not to be mad is another form of madness

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May God never abandon me.

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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

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Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

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We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.

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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

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What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

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Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

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La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last…

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It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.

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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not…

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we…

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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose…

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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find…

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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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“There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made…

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En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il…

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The stream is always purer at its source.

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Opinion is the queen of the world.

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By thought I embrace the universe.

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Continuous eloquence wearies.

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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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Continued eloquence is wearisome.

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I know whom I have believed.

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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.

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We like to be deceived.

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Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

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Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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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…

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the…

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they…

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…