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“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

Blaise Pascal · Loneliness

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Blaise Pascal

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.

Knowledge

Blaise Pascal

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

God

Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Nature

Blaise Pascal

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Truth