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Blaise Pascal Quotes

The precipice

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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The Pensées (1670)

Was born on: 19.06.1623
About Author: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher

Little objects

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

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Atheists

To pity atheists who seek, for are they not unhappy enough? To inveigh against those who make a boast of it.

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Man wishes to be happy

Despite these miseries, man wishes to be happy, and only wishes to be happy, and cannot wish not to be so. But how will he set about it? To be happy he would have to make himself immortal; but, not being able to do so, it has occurred to him to prevent himself from thinking of death.

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Man's problem

How does it happen that this man, so distressed at the death of his wife and his only son, or who has some great lawsuit which annoys him, is not at this moment sad, and that he seems so free from all painful and disquieting thoughts? We need not wonder; for a ball has been served him, and he must return it to his companion. He is occupied in catching it in its fall from the roof, to win a game.

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How useless is painting

How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!

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