Quotes about Things by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles.

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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.

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Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

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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...

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience

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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes, we have no wish to find them alike.

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