Tag: Blaise Pascal
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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Vanity is but the surface.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal