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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
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All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
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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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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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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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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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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
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