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Quotes by Blaise Pascal

"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts,
but by his ordinary doing"


- ~Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
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All the troubles of man stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
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I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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Thou wouldst not have sought me hadst thou not already found me.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Source: Pensées. 1670.
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Let us wager the gain and the loss is wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Source: Pensées. 1670.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Source: Pensées. 1670.
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