"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
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"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
Blaise Pascal"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."
Blaise Pascal"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
Blaise Pascal"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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
Blaise Pascal"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."
Blaise Pascal"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
Blaise Pascal"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"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
Blaise Pascal"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
Blaise Pascal"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."
Blaise Pascal"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
Blaise Pascal"Imagination decides everything."
Blaise Pascal"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."
Blaise Pascal"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
Blaise Pascal"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
Blaise Pascal"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
Blaise Pascal"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
Blaise Pascal"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
Blaise Pascal"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
Blaise Pascal"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
Blaise Pascal"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
Blaise Pascal"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
Blaise Pascal"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
Blaise Pascal"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Blaise Pascal"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
Blaise Pascal"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
Blaise Pascal"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?"
Blaise Pascal"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
Blaise Pascal"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves."
Blaise Pascal"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
Blaise Pascal"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
Blaise Pascal"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
Blaise Pascal"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."
Blaise Pascal"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
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