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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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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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  Hate, Lying, Important

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• The war existing between the senses and reason.

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  War, Conflict, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Christ, Knowing God

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• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

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  Heart, Giving, Reason

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• they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

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  Quarry, Knows

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• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

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  Death, Fate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

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  Believe, Simple, Water

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, Section III: On the Necessity of the Wager (184-241), 1669.

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• Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

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  Believe, Men, Inward

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

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  Apology, Praying, Excuse

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

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  Sea, Rivers, Doe

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• Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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  Stupid, Justice, Tools

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

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  Struggle, Blessing, Boredom

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

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  Thinking, Law, People

  Blaise Pascal, Richard Henry Popkin (1989). “Pascal selections”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

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  Love, Math, Views

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• How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

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  Strong, Childhood, Immaturity

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

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  Heart, Math, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

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  Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

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• One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

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  Greatness, Men, Circles

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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  Love, Inspiring, Inspirational Life

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• We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

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  Faith, Spiritual, Sleep

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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  Law, Justice, Examination

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

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  Love, Doubt, Facts

  Blaise Pascal, Prosper Faugère (1849). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal: Consisting of Letters, Essays, Conversations, and Miscellaneous Thoughts (the Greater Part Hertofore Unpublished in this Country, and a Large Portion from Original Mss.)”, p.132

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• There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

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  Vanity, Arena, Form

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• Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

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  Mean, Eye, Interest

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