Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
• Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
• Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
• The self is hateful.
• Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
• The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
• We never, then, love a person, but only qualities
• The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of…
• The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
• Nothing gives us rest but the sincere search for truth
• The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.
• Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
• Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
• Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.
• Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
• The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of…
• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.
• It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart
• Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also…
• Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington.

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