Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me,…
• Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
• [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of…
• The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
• All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
• Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this…
• If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
• We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from…
• Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
• Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure,…
• Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
• All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
• By thought I embrace the universe.
• Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
• There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
• I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can…
• Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
• A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
• We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

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