Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
• It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
• Men blaspheme what they do not know.
• Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
• What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
• It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through…
• We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are…
• Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
• However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
• Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we…
• All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
• The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of…
• The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
• Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
• Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
• Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure…
• You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as…
• The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
• We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by…

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