Blaise Pascal Quotes
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. The gospel to me is simply irresistible. The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. 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. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. The only shame is to have none. The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. The self is hateful. The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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