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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Written by Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Written by Blaise Pascal
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... 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 enough to amuse him.
Written by Blaise Pascal
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Written by Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Written by Blaise Pascal
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Written by Blaise Pascal
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Written by Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Written by Blaise Pascal
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Written by Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Written by Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Written by Blaise Pascal
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Written by Blaise Pascal
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Written by Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Written by Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Written by Blaise Pascal
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Written by Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Written by Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Written by Blaise Pascal

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