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• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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  Desire, Our Actions, Causes

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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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• Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

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  Science, Winning, Mind

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

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• Continued eloquence is wearisome.

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  Eloquence

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• Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

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  Fall, Mean, Vices

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.49, Letcetera Publishing

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• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

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  Greatness, Vanity, People

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

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• Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

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  Art, Fun, Philosophy

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• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

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  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

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  Sight, Misery, Instinct

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

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  Philosophy, Scorn

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

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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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• Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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  Our Actions, Causes, Morality

  Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “PensŽes”, Hackett Publishing

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• We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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  Heart, Listening, Ears

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• No animal admires another animal.

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  Animal, Pet, Admire

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• Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

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  Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

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• I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

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  Philosophy, Giving, Needs

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Movement, Absolutes

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• Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

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  Art, Independent, Natural

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Admiration spoils all from infancy.

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  Admiration, Infancy, Spoil

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

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  Death, Men, Agony

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.369

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• I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

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  Tears, I Can

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.87

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• The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

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  Men, Order, Religion

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• The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

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  God, Bravery, Cowardice

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• Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

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  Passion, Men, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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