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genius blaise pascal

Blaise Pascal

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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genius blaise pascal

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

genius blaise pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.

genius blaise pascal

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world

genius blaise pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

genius blaise pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

genius blaise pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.

genius blaise pascal

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

genius blaise pascal

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

genius blaise pascal

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

genius blaise pascal

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise

genius blaise pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

genius blaise pascal

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

genius blaise pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.