“Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. Blaise Pascal” — Demetrius Sherman Copy Share Image
It's an honor to fight a big name like Pascal. He's a champion and he's very experienced. — Dmitry Bivol Copy Share Image
When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year. — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid. — Bojan Markovic Copy Share Image
Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200. — Paul Popenoe Copy Share Image
“Man is neither angel nor beast, and unfortunately anyone who tries to make an angel out of him makes him a beast.… — Christoph Schönborn Copy Share Image
Pascal Wager invented the calculator and he also said you can apply mathematics to faith in God so I thought that was… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the… — Scott Fahlman Copy Share Image
Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer. — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but… — Bono Copy Share Image
“I’ve programmed in all kinds of languages, said the tough old hacker as he eased up to the bar, and it don’t… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“at all,” he said. “I was surrounded by hundreds of men waiting for the end of their lives, waiting for that something… — Allen Eskens Copy Share Image
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She knew it was a lizard from pictures in the fairy-tale book, long and lithe and dry and scaly but with legs,… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“Without knowing why, she brought her hair up to Pascal again. She knew he wouldn't be hurt. The little lizard was intrigued… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal” — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast’ (Blaise… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image