Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
• Law, without force, is impotent.
• The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels…
• Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
• Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
• We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.
• The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
• 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…
• We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and…
• 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…
• The war existing between the senses and reason.
• I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
• The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements... But a God…
• It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
• One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences…
• If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe,…
• There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
• We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.
• What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden…

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