Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 6

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• No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

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  Kings, Taken, Self

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• All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

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  Men, Motive, Exception

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

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• We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

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• Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

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  Giving, Complaining, Thanks

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

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  Past, Thinking, Our Thoughts

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

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• Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

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  Faith, Limits, Reason

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• There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

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  Men, Holes, Every Man

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• The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

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  Ocean, Pebbles, Affected

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• We like to be deceived.

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  Deception, Deceived

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

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  Confusion, Unity, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

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  Jesus, Garden, Race

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

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  Happiness, Knowing, Silence

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• Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

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  Silence, Saint, Silent

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• If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

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  Faith, Men, Made

  Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “PensŽes”, Hackett Publishing

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• The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

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  Thinking, Limits, Ends

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• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

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  Advice, Matter, Way

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• Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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  Different, Effects, Different Meanings

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.38, tredition

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• Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

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  Mind, Chess, Gymnasiums

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• Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

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  Fear Not, Ifs

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

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  Men, Soul, Kind

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• Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

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  Truth, Long, Purpose

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• It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

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  Victory, Delight, Contests

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• There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

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  Heart, Two, People

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• The property of power is to protect.

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  Power, Protect, Property

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.103, Letcetera Publishing

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• It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

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  Heart, Understanding, Divine

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