Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
• Opinion is the queen of the world.
• The stream is always purer at its source.
• I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give…
• Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
• Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
• The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
• 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…
• How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
• How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
• It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
• Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
• The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
• There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former…
• May God never abandon me.
• The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
• Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge  ome  trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures…
• Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e  tonne   et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme.…

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