Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
• Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
• Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and…
• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
• Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to…
• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
• The only shame is to have none.
• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
• Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a…
• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
• Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
• The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
• Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
• Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
• He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
• Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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