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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

The conduct of God

The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror.

The Pensées (1670)

The Great and the humble

The great and the humble have the same misfortunes, the same griefs, the same passions; but the one is at the top of the wheel, and the other near the centre, and so less disturbed by the same revolutions.

The Pensées (1670)

The heart of man

How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!

The Pensées (1670)

Beliefs and attraction

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

The Art of Persuasion

Fools

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

The Pensées (1670)

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