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Pascal Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
- In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
- It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying…
- When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the…
- People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite…
- [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the…
- It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the stratosphere…
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- 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
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- In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
- Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we… — William James
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