Tag: Blaise Pascal
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise Pascal
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Blaise Pascal
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise Pascal
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal
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Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal