Tag: Blaise Pascal
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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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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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The self is hateful.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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