#si

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

— Blaise Pascal

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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

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

— Blaise Pascal

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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