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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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The secrets of nature are concealed her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects time reveals them from age to age and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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The property of power is to protect.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
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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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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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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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The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion but opinion uses force.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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