Tag: Blaise Pascal
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
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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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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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