QUOTES by Blaise Pascal
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"God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will."
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"At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong."
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"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 to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards."
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"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 when speaking of God."
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"It is better to know something about everything then everything about something"
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"Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
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"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 men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."
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"Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him."
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"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."
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"All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room."
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"If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding."
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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."
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"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions."
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"We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship."
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"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists."
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"When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do."
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"We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it."
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"No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth"
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright"
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"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."
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"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."
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"Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder."
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"Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
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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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"Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough."
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"God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us."
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"There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition"
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"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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