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Blaise Pascal
France
19 Jun 1623 // 19 Aug 1662
Philosopher / Mathematician
15 Texts
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On Habit:
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts
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On Nature:
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble
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On Fame:
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death
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On Mind:
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary
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On Knowledge:
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything
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On Reason:
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others
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On Man:
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death
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On Self-knowledge:
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better
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On Man:
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care
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On Mediocrity:
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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