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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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  • The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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  • The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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  • The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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  • The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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  • The war existing between the senses and reason.
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  • The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
    Pensees
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  • The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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  • There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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  • There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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  • There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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  • Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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  • Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
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  • Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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  • Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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  • To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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