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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Blaise Pascal

Imagination, Needs, World

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

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Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Blaise Pascal

Silence, Saint, Silent

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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

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Common, Familiar

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.513

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How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Blaise Pascal

Silly, Insanity, Doe

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

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Men, Praise, I Can

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La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

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Lasts, Firsts, Composing

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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

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Future, Mean, Past

Blaise Pascal (1727). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects”, p.178

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Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

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Math, Depth, Demand

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Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Blaise Pascal

Queens, Use, World

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L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.

Blaise Pascal

Facts

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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

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Comfort, Found, Console

'Pensèes' (1670) no. 553

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It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

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Believe, Miracle, Reasonable

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

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Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Blaise Pascal

Change, Lying, Dies

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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

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Moving, Rivers, Wish

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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

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Ancient, Infancy, Mankind

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

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Truth, Pride, Men

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All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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Hate, Men, Charity

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

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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Blaise Pascal

Justice, Blind, Resemblance

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To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

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Kings, Diminish

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.30, Open Road Media

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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

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Self, World, Failing

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The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

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Book, Lasts, Firsts

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240

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Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.
Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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Life, Two, Heaven

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We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

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Justice, Climate, Degrees

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

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Greatness, Men, Tree

"Selections from The Thoughts".

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Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

Movement, Absolutes

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Born: June 19, 1623
Died: August 19, 1662
Occupation: Mathematician
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