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Blaise Pascal

  • We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Nature diversifies and imitates; art imitates and diversifies.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Love has its reasons that Reason knows not... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Men blaspheme what they do not know.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.... Blaise Pascal {view}