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• So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

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  Knowing, Sin, Wells

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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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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  Christian, Men, Two

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• And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

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  Reign, Truth Is, Crime

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

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• Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

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  Justice, Justified

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Imagination decides everything.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Imagination

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

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• It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

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  Math, Intelligence, Uncertain

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce”, p.99

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• Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

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  Happiness, Searching For Happiness, Exception

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• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

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  Nature, Roots, Mind

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• If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

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  Peace, Believe, Men

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• Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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  Evil, Infinite, Easy

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

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  Religious, Believe, Doe

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• There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

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  Two, Numbers, Achievement

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• We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

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  Change, God, Knowledge

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• It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

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  Miracle, Impossible, Reasonable

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

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  Errors, Effort, Risk

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• All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

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  Lying, Dignity, Our Thoughts

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• (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

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  Men, Scandal, Glory

  Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.162

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• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

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  Atheist, Mean, Sleep

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• Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

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  Men, Thinking, Morality

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• Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

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  Childhood

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.221, David C Cook

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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  Business, Passion, Men

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• Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

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  Giving, Complaining, Thanks

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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  Peace, Men, Rivers

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• The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

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  Ocean, Pebbles, Affected

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• Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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  Friendship, Emotional, Behinds

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