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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
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Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
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Louis de Montalte
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Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Symmetry is what we see at a glance based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon 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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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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