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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Born: Jun 19, 1623
Died: Aug 19, 1662
Faith God Man Men Nothing Truth
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Blaise Pascal
Happiness God Neither Both Within Without Nor Us
Men blaspheme what they do not know. Blaise Pascal
Men Know
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
Great Man Tree Wretched He Know Himself Knows Does Greatness Itself
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. Blaise Pascal
Good Nature Man Lost Everything True True Nature Becomes His Being
Vanity is but the surface. Blaise Pascal
Vanity Surface
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
Wish Those Having Write Written Well Read Fame Against Them Who Works Even Desire
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. Blaise Pascal
Love Natural Mind Will Believe Must Objects Attach True False Want To Love Themselves
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal
Religion Ought Battles Must Uncertainty How Certain Act Sea Certainty Many Things Save
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. Blaise Pascal
Death Ignorance Be Happy Happy Fight Men Think Able Misery Taken Heads Order Against Them
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal
Good Free Too Everything Wants
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
Love Man Feeling Matters Live Vain Secretly Those Ourselves Possibly Must Seemingly Something Conceal Without Always Cannot Moment Found
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
Faith Tells See Above Contrary Senses Against Them Us Certainly
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal
Faith Indeed Tell Tells See Above Contrary Senses Them
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. Blaise Pascal
Faith Doctors Matters Security Moral Moral Questions Feel Like Infallible Questions Pope Reassured Grave
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. Blaise Pascal
Fools Master Other More Commands Than Unfortunate Far Us Reason
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Blaise Pascal
Time Nature Soul Nothing Believe Else Our Dimension Finds Cast Calls Where Body Reasons Necessity Number
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. Blaise Pascal
Justice Will Our Examination Laws Thus Since Without Just Established Regarded Necessarily
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal
Alone Struggle Victory Pleases Us
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal
Me Silence Space Frighten Infinite Spaces Eternal
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. Blaise Pascal
Me Prosperity Matter Weather Mood Foggy Fine Misfortune Days Within Little Connection
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