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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”
— Blaise Pascal
“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.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
— 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.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Law, without force, is impotent.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Little things console us because little things afflict us.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
— Blaise Pascal
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
— Blaise Pascal
“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”
— Blaise Pascal
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
— Blaise Pascal
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”
— Blaise Pascal
“People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.”
— Blaise Pascal
“We never love a person, but only qualities.”
— Blaise Pascal
“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.”
— Blaise Pascal
“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The self is hateful.”
— Blaise Pascal
“We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”
— Blaise Pascal
“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
— Blaise Pascal
“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.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.”
— Blaise Pascal
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