Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Men blaspheme what they do not know. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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