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    Blaise Pascal
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heart, love, quip, reason
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

    (Letter 16, 1657)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: evil, religious-conviction
    725 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: humor, letter
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    Blaise Pascal
    “To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: philosophy
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
    tags: attractivenessiveness, beliefs, evidence, persuasion, prejudice, proof, subjectivity
    400 likes

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    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.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: betrayal, frienship
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: curiosity, pride, vanity
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: falsehood, truth
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
    (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees
    tags: paradox, quip, risk, uncertainty
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    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.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: dull, intuition, mathematical
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    Blaise Pascal
    “To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: philosophy
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    Blaise Pascal
    “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: natural, sickness, truth
    184 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensees
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: humble, vanity
    174 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: human-nature
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    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.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: heart, love, reason, truth
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    “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
    Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
    Where there is injury, pardon;
    Where there is doubt, faith;
    Where there is despair, hope;
    Where there is darkness, light;
    And where there is sadness, joy.

    O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
    to be consoled as to console,
    to be understood as to understand,
    to be loved, as to love.

    For it is in giving that we receive,
    It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
    and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
    ― Anglican clergyman
    tags: aspirations, prayer, spirituality
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    Francis of Assisi
    “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi
    tags: inspirational
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    Francis of Assisi
    “He who works with his hands is a laborer.
    He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
    He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
    ― Saint Francis of Assisi
    tags: art, craft, labor
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    Francis of Assisi
    “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi
    tags: inspirational, leading-by-example
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    Francis of Assisi
    “Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.”
    ― Francis of Assisi
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    Francis of Assisi
    “If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
    ― Francis Of Assisi
    tags: animals, compassion, peace, pity
    230 likes

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    Francis of Assisi
    “True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi
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    Francis of Assisi
    “We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”
    ― St. Francis of Assisi
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Francis of Assisi
    “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”
    ― St. Francis of Assisi
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    Francis of Assisi
    “And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.”
    ― St. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
    tags: endurance, patience, suffering
    64 likes



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