Blaise Pascal Quotes

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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…
• Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
• Custom determines what is agreeable.
• All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
• Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
• The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least…
• Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
• Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.
• Continuous eloquence wearies.
• Eloquence is the painting of thought ...
• Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
• If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
• Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To…
• All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
• How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
• We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian…
• Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
• Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
• The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to…

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