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Doe Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
- What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe…
- We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain…
- No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can…
- There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either…
- The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
- A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
- Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.
- We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian…
- The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to…
- Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
- He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
- I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess…
- Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should…
- That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
- One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing…
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