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Principles Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- 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 two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through…
- All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
- Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are…
- Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
- If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion…
- The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove…
- Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created…
- Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate…
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- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
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- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- One of the principles of life — Vandi Tanko