Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
• It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
• Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
• It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the…
• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
• Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
• We never love a person, but only qualities.
• Little things console us because little things afflict us.
• The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
• I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
• If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
• Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
• Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
• Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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