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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.]

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  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.

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  Facts

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• Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

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  Change, Lying, Dies

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

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  Justice, Blind, Resemblance

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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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• I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

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  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

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• Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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  Men, Evil, Rooms

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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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• Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

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  Knowledge, Men, Secret

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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