Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist and philosopher
Lived from: 1623 - 1662
Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: 
France
Born: 19 june 1623 Died: 19 august 1662
Quotes 81 till 100 of 162.
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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Men spend their time chasing a ball or a hare; it is the very sport of kings.
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Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
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Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
The Art of Persuasion― Blaise Pascal -
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
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Pride takes such natural possession of us in the midst of our woes, errors, etc. We even lose our life with joy, provided people talk of it.
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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
― Blaise Pascal
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