Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
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"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
Blaise Pascal
"Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
Blaise Pascal
"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
"Kind words produce their images on men's souls."
Blaise Pascal
"God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality."
Blaise Pascal
"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."
Blaise Pascal
"Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."
Blaise Pascal
"Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state."
Blaise Pascal
"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."
Blaise Pascal
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
Blaise Pascal
"There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws."
Blaise Pascal
"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back"
Blaise Pascal
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
Blaise Pascal
"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."
Blaise Pascal
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
Blaise Pascal
"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."
Blaise Pascal
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright"
Blaise Pascal
"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."
Blaise Pascal
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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