QUOTES by Blaise Pascal
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"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."
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"By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."
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"And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?"
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"Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference..."
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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
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"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
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"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other."
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"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."
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"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
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"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."
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal"
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"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
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"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
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"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
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"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
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"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."
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"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."
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"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder."
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"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back"
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"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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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
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"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (Letter 16, 1657)"
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