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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart. - Blaise Pascal

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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
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
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Louis de Montalte
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
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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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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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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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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.
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All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
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The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
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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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