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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Dogmatists
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Skeptics
Skeptic
Nature
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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
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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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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
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It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom by thought I comprehend the world.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason this is faith.
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Not to be mad is another form of madness
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Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
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The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles peu approfondissement les choses.]
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Force rules the world-not opinion but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
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