“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
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Famous Blaise Pascal Quotes
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”
Source: The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
Source: Pascal Pensées
“However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.”
“Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.”
“To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.”
“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
Source: Thoughts