Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and…
• What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything
• Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere
• True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.
• For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought…
• The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we…
• Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we may never recoganize it
• Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it.
• I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
• Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it
• Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
• Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate…
• Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.
• A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
• It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken…
• If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
• The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed.
• The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
• We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and…
• There are two types of minds, the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are…

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