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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About Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal ( pass-KAL, also UK: -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, US: pahs-KAHL; French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

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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.

—Blaise Pascal

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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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You always admire what you really don't understand.

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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Here's the thing about broken hearts: You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.

—Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake

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Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

—Myrtle Reed

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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it.

—Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

—Albert Schweitzer

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And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love.