Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who…
• As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to…
• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine…
• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must…
• Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature…
• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing…
• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always…
• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they…
• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to…
• Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
• The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to…
• If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things…
• It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
• Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
• All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
• Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
• We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified…
• Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some…

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