Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
• Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
• The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
• When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although…
• The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and…
• Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created…
• The property of power is to protect.
• We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it.…
• ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if…
• Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
• Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
• Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.
• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
• What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be…
• No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
• Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
• If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
• It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
• People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

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