Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning.
[Books]
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
[Influence]
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The main object of the gospel is to establish two principles--the corruption of nature, and the redemption by Jess Christ.
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The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
[Progress]
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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.
[Trifles]
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The more enlarged is our own mind, the greater number we discover of men of originality. Your commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
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The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude, is tyranny.
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The only shame is to have none.
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
[The Present]
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The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
[One Day]
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, are the marks of a strange inversion.
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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God.
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
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The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
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