Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
• Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I…
• Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose…
• Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
• It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
• To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.
• What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe…
• There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly,…
• Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all…
• For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
• When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that…
• I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,…
• The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age;…
• We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
• We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain…
• Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are…
• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science,…
• Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself…
• It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

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