Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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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.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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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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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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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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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.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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