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• The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

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  Heart, Brain

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• God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

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  God, Distance, Games

  Pensees no. 680 (1658). Popularly known as "Pascal's wager."

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• If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

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  Two, Principles, Ridiculous

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• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

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  Christian, Order, Doe

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

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  Passion, Mean, Mind

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• Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

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  Differences, Facts, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

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  Fashion, Justice, Matter

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

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• Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

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  War, Evil, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

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  Moving, Rivers, Water

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

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  Spring, Heart, Roots

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.91

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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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  Faith, Perception, Contrary

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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  Time, Ignorance, Knowledge

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

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• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

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  Book, Reading, Books And Reading

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.31, Letcetera Publishing

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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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  Opportunity, Men, Errors

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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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  Evil, Add, Investing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

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  Infinite

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• It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

  "Of the Geometrical Spirit". Book by Blaise Pascal, 2015.

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• Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

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  Wise, Imagination, Fool

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

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• [Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

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  Faith, Heart, Two

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• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

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  Truth, Men, Moon

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Custom determines what is agreeable.

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  Determine, Customs

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.102, Letcetera Publishing

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• Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

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  Education, Intuition, Natural

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

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  Real, Vanity, Hypocrisy

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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• When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

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  Life, Passion, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

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  Greatness, Men, Class

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