Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
• I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
• How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
• Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to…
• Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
• There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
• That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
• You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
• To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
• Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
• If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we…
• If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
• There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
• We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
• Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
• Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
• On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
• He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
• We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall…

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