Quotes by Blaise Pascal | French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer & theologian | “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
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By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
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Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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