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| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| 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. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The war existing between the senses and reason. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We like to be deceived. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The gospel to me is simply irresistible. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| 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. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Imagination decides everything. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| Law, without force, is impotent. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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