Blaise Pascal Quotes
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.
Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.â€
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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