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Contrary Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as…
- Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not…
- 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…
- There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
- Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
- Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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