Blaise Pascal: Citations en anglais

Blaise Pascal était mathématicien, physicien, inventeur, écrivain et philosophe chrétien français (XVIIe siècle). Citations en anglais.
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“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

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“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

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“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

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“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

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“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”

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“The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”

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Variante: Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.
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“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

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“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference…”

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“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”

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“The manner in which,, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.”

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“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.”

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