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• Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
  the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

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  Men, Mind, Body

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

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  Life, Men, Anxiety

  "Pensées" (1669), Article VI. 46 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

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  Life, Hope To Live, Arranging

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• Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

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  Amusement, Deceiving, Graves

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.94

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• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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  Powerful, Justice, Together

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

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• If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

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  God, Religion God, Manifest

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.176, Letcetera Publishing

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• To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

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  Religious, Men, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.380

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• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

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  Democracy, Majority, Able

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.264, Lulu.com

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• We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

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  Running, Abyss, Seeing

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

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  Sentiments, Reasoning

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• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

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  Humility, Pride, Math

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• Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

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  Philosopher

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

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  Death, Knows, Dies

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

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  Believe, Giving, Grace

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

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  Men, Solitude, Fellow Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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  Real, Being Real, Should

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.284

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• The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

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  Powerful, Night, World

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

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  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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• It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

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  Gratitude, Love Is, Allies

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• Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

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  Change, Continuity

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Heart

  "Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated".

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• Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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  Integrity, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

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  Beauty, Nature, Quality

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• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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  Men, Evil, Inability

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