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• The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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  Lasts, Infinity, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

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  Evil, Principles, Conscience

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 157, 1895.

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• Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

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  Simple, Reason, Accepted

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.
  [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

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  Appreciate, World, Parole

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• It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

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  Government, Space, Atoms

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

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  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

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  Usual, Common, Born

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

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• The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

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  Faithful, Church, Ransom

  Blaise Pascal (1846). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.259

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• Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

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  Men, Independence, Needs

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• Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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  Nature, Math, Garden

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• It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

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  Freedom, Greed, Want

  "Pensées".

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• The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

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  World, Care, Beneath The Surface

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• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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  Truth, Contradiction, Mathematics

  "Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth". Book by George Englebretsen (p. 153), 2006.

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• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

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  Blessing, Men, Knowing

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• We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

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  Vanity, Wish, World

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.90

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• We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

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  Love, Idols, Age

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

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  Jesus, Deeds, Littles

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• Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

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  Blindness, Prove, Zeal

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thought of Blaise Pascal: Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul...”

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• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

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  Art, Believe, Men

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

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  Men, Desire, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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• We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

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  Math, Vanity, People

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

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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  Time, Learning, Usual

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

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  Vanity, Painting, Vain

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