Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
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"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
Blaise Pascal
"The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that."
Blaise Pascal
"Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair."
Blaise Pascal
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Blaise Pascal
"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."
Blaise Pascal
"If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself."
Blaise Pascal
"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing."
Blaise Pascal
"Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones."
Blaise Pascal
"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine."
Blaise Pascal
"Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience."
Blaise Pascal
"All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
Blaise Pascal
"The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand."
Blaise Pascal
"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom gloom sorrow chagrin resentment and despair."
Blaise Pascal
"If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing."
Blaise Pascal
"Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed."
Blaise Pascal
"Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves."
Blaise Pascal
"Everyone without exception is searching for happiness."
Blaise Pascal
"All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
Blaise Pascal
"The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able."
Blaise Pascal
"It is the heart which experiences God not the reason."
Blaise Pascal
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