Blaise Pascal - From the Beginning category:
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Editing category:
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Emotion category:
The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Faith category:
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Greatness category:
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Happiness category:
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Humility category:
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Imagination category:
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in the world. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Intellect category:
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Limitations category:
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Mediocrity category:
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Movement category:
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Originality category:
The more originality you have in yourself, the more you see in others. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Painting category:
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Passion category:
When the passions become masters, they are vices. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Religion category:
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Space category:
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Thought category:
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Vanity category:
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Vanity category:
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Winning category:
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. (Blaise Pascal)
Blaise Pascal - From the Writing category:
Anything that is written to please the author is worthless. (Blaise Pascal)
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