Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister.
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
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The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
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It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known as the above rules, nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.
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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.
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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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The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.
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The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
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C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
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These five rules above form all that is necessary to render proofs convincing, immutable, and to say all, geometrical; and the eight rules together render them even more perfect.
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Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.
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Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
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All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.