Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
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We like to be deceived.
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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
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Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .
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It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.