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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

Lived from: 1623 - 1662

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: FlagFrance

Born: 19 june 1623 Died: 19 august 1662

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  • Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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  • Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
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  • That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
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  • The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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  • The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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  • The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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  • The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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  • The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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  • The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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  • The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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  • The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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  • The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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  • The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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  • The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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  • The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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  • The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
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  • The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
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  • The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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  • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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