Blaise Pascal quotes - page 11

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists. (Blaise Pascal)
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
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We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.
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The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.
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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us the charms of novelty have the same power. (Blaise Pascal)
Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Continuous eloquence wearies.
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example of good and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.
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Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. (Blaise Pascal)
For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence.
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Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires.
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The method of not erring is sought by all the world.
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As to the objection that these rules are common in the world.
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