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There are plenty of maxims in the world all that remains is to apply them.

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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What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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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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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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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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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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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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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
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Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
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