Blaise Pascal Quotes


166 quotes:

"If I had more time I would write a shorter letter."
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"The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first."
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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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"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."
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"Immateriality of the soul, philosophers who have mastered their passions. What matter could do that?"
Author: Pascal Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"Atheists ought to say what is perfectly evident; now it is not perfectly evident that the soul is material."
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"All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true."
Author: Pascal Quotes Category: Principles Quotes
"We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything."
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"To find recreation in amusement is not happiness."
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"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize"
Author: Pascal Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes
"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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"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere"
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"I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter."
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"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."
Author: Pascal Quotes Category: Humility Quotes
"Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this"
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"Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere"
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"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy"
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"Habit is the second nature which destroys the first."
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"The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so."
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"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short."
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