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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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way—(1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
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Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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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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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum― Blaise Pascal -
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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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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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He who will know fully the vanity of man has only to consider the causes and effects of love.
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How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
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How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
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How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
Pensees (1669)― Blaise Pascal
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