Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
• The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing…
• If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister
• Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
• No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can…
• Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
• This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing…
• If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
• We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.
• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce…
• The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
• To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so…
• There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either…
• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
• Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
• It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I…
• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you…
• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from…

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