French - Philosopher | June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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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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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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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.
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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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