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Famous Blaise Pascal Quotes
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
Source: Thoughts
Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
Source: Thoughts
Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works
“Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.”
Source: Human Happiness
Source: Pascal Pensées
“How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!”
“It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.”
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“Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
Source: Pascal Pensées
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Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.”
Source: Pensées
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.”
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
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“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
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Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works