Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist and philosopher
Lived from: 1623 - 1662
Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: 
France
Born: 19 june 1623 Died: 19 august 1662
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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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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Original:Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
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Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
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After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
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All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
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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?
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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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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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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
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