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Our Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
- It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the…
- If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
- Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
- Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
- The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and…
- Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
- Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
- The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine…
- In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
- Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing…
- Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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