French - Philosopher | June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise Pascal
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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