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Own Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man…
- Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame…
- What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
- It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
- 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…
- It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
- Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
- 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…
- All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
- Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth…
- We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall…
- When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered…
- We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified…
- Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on…
- Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the…
- The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove…
- Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as…
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
- When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although…
- True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.
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