Blaise Pascal ,quotes

Reason commands us far more im...

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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The charm of fame is so great ...

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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We run carelessly to the preci...

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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When we see a natural style, w...

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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There are two kinds of people ...

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

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As men are not able to fight a...

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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Continuous eloquence wearies. ...

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

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The finite is annihilated in t...

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 justice.

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In each action we must look be...

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 relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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The immortality of the soul is...

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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Habit is a second nature that ...

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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Our soul is cast into a body, ...

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 else.

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Vanity of science. Knowledge o...

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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There are some who speak well ...

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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We conceal it from ourselves i...

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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Justice is what is established...

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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The last proceeding of reason ...

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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If we must not act save on a c...

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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Muhammad established a religio...

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

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Kind words produce their own i...

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 him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

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