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• Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

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  Believe, Men, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

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  Desire, Misery, Certainty

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.136, Letcetera Publishing

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• The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

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  Law, Giving, Grace

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• The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

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  Christian, Environmental, And Love

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.294

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• Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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  Men, Knows

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.166, Letcetera Publishing

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• Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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  Death, Dying

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

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  Atheist, Soul, Doubt

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

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• If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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  Funny, God, Humorous

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• A jester, a bad character.

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  Character, Jester, Bad Character

  "Pensées". Art, VI. 22, 1669.

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• Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

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  Pain, Distance, Light

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.83

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• Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

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  Truth, Distance, Light

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• All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

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  Love, Christian, Passion

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

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  Uncertain, Certain, Translations

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• The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

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  Mind, Progress, Want

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.153

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• The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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  Long, Letters, Leisure

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal”, p.339

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• Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

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  God, Believe, Four

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• Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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  Nature, Reason, Skeptic

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• The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

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  Art, Order, Justice

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.184

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• Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

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  Wish, Debt, Benefits

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Vacuums, Christ

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• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

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  Faith, Silent, Deny

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

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• Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

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  Heart, Men, Roots

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• We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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  Running, Aging, Precipice

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

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  Feelings, Sentiments, Reasoning

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• Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

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  Mean, Humanity, Majority

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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