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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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Original:Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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It is to judgment that perception belongs, as science belongs to intellect. Intuition is the part of judgment, mathematics of intellect.
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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