Tag: Blaise Pascal
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal
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Imagination decides everything.
Blaise Pascal
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Blaise Pascal