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Blaise Pascal Quotes

True and false objects

Blaise Pascal

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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The Pensées (1670)

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

Our imagination

Things which have the most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain. Another turn of the imagination would make us discover this without difficulty.

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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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Nature and balance

Nature has set us so well in the centre, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.

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Don't speak

Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak.

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Wretched man

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar state of his disposition; and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient to amuse him.

The Pensées (1670)

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