Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#duty #end #god #guide #him

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#days #fine #foggy #i #little

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #blind #enough #light #shadows

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

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Law, without force, is impotent. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#law #without

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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