Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

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Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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You always admire what you really don't understand.

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