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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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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. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #cannot #everything #know #known

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#experience #instinct #men #nature #things

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#different #different sides #eyes #find #only

You always admire what you really don't understand. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #really #understand #you

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#further #going #himself #how #incapable

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#everything #free #too #wants

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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