Blaise Pascal Short Quotes

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The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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Things are always at their best in their beginning.

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But is it probable that probability gives assurance?

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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.
In French: Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

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Little things console us, because little things afflict us.

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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

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A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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Probability — Each one can employ it; no one can take it away.

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Comfort yourself, you would not seek me if you had not found me.

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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.

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There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

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Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

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I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural.

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