We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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Quotes by Blaise Pascal
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Of the truths within our reach, the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason.
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The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.
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In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: a man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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I do not speak here of divine truths, because they are infinitely superior to nature: God alone can place them in the soul. I know that he has desired that they should enter from the heart into the mind, and not from the mind into the heart, to humiliate that proud power of reasoning that pretends to the right to be the judge of the things that the will chooses; and to cure this infirm will which is wholly corrupted by its filthy attachments.
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One of the principal reasons that diverts those who are entering upon this knowledge so much from the true path which they should follow, is the fancy that they take at the outset that good things are inaccessible, giving them the name great, lofty, elevated, sublime. This destroys everything. I would call them low, common, familiar: these names suit it better; I hate such inflated expressions.
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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.
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There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! It is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation. He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.
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They [men] have corrupted this [God's supernatural] order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.
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