Blaise Pascal Quote

Two excesses: excluding reason, admitting nothing but reason.

If you do not act as you think, you will end up thinking as you act.

Blaise Pascal

I prefer to be wrong believing in a God who does not exist, than to be wrong not believing in a God who exists. Because if there is nothing afterwards, obviously I will never know it when I sink into eternal nothingness; but if there is something, if there is Someone, I will have to account for my attitude of rejection.

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It is worth knowing something about everything, rather than knowing everything about one thing.

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The heart has reasons that reason ignores.

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When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

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I only know two types of reasonable people: those who love God with all their hearts because they know Him, and those who seek Him with all their hearts because they do not know Him.

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Always being ready to be happy, it is inevitable not to be at some point.

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Man has illusions like the bird has wings. That's what sustains him.

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Mediocrity is the only thing that suits. This has been established by the majority, and it bites anyone who escapes from it in any way.

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The strings that tie the respect of one for another are, in general, strings of necessity.

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Reason works slowly, and with so many considerations, on so many principles, that it often falls asleep or gets lost at any moment. Passion works in an instant.

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The greatness of a man lies in knowing how to recognize his own smallness.

Blaise Pascal