Blaise Pascal quotes

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. (Blaise Pascal)
The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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Literally: I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. (Blaise Pascal)
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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.
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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 he loves.
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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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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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. (Blaise Pascal)
Justice without strength is powerless strength without justice is tyrannical.
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Our nature consists in movement absolute rest is death.
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal