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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. (Blaise Pascal)
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. View quote
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. View quote
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. View quote
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. View quote
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. View quote
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. View quote
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. View quote
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God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love. View quote
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The source of the errors of these two sects, is in not having known. View quote
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One man will say a thing of himself without comprehending its excellence, in which another will discern a marvelous series of conclusions, which makes us affirm that it is no longer the same expression, and that he is no more indebted for it to the one from whom he has learned it, than a beautiful tree belongs to the one who cast the seed, without thinking of it, or knowing it, into the fruitful soil which caused its growth by its own fertility. (Blaise Pascal)
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. View quote
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All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are. View quote
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It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly... View quote
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. View quote
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. View quote
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What would you say of that man who was made king by the error of the people, if he had so far forgotten his natural condition as to imagine that this kingdom was due to him, that he deserved it, and that it belonged to him of right? You would marvel at his stupidity and folly. But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition? View quote
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If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition. View quote
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These five rules [above] form all that is necessary to render proofs convincing, immutable, and to say all, geometrical; and the eight rules together render them even more perfect. View quote
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Of the truths within our reach... the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but... few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason. View quote
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Five [of the above] rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error. (Blaise Pascal)
These eight rules [above] contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs. View quote
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Thus he had a double thought: the one by which he acted as king, the other by which he recognized his true state, and that it was accident alone that had placed him in his present condition. View quote
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Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves. View quote
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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice. View quote
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