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• [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

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  Reading, Book, Men

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• We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

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  Forgiveness, Mercy Of God, Vices

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.180, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

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  Animal, Greatness, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.150, Open Road Media

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• Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

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  Wine, Giving, Littles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

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  Men, Pardon, Heal

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

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  Angel, Men, Want

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.358.

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• How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.

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  Christian, Heaven, Lost Everything

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• To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

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  Religious, Men, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.380

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• Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

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  Speak, All Things, Knows

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• It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

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  Men, Judging, Causes

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.182

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• The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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  Science, Space, Silence

  Pensees no. 233 (1658)

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• The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

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  Thinking, Omnipotence, Imagination

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• It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

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  Believe, Voice, Belief

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

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  Beauty, Nature, Quality

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• We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Heart

  "Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated".

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

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  Humanity, Moderation, Outrage

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• All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

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  Evil, Solitude, Stem

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• Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

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  Queens, Tyrants, World

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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  Integrity, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

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  Men, Doe, Different

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.52, Letcetera Publishing

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• If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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  Journey, Sea, Battle

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.87, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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  Struggle, Best Effort, Victory

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

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  God, Forever, Eternal

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• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

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  Divine Justice, Spirit, Infinite

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

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  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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