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• The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

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  Math, Men, Logic

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• Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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  Faith, Wise, Gains

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

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  Appreciation, Giving Up, Believe

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• We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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  Men, Should, Hesitation

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

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  Anxiety, Darkness, Purpose

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

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  Wise, Yesterday, Achievement

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• What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

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  Differences, Knowing, Loving Him

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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  Love, Native American, Religion

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• The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

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  Christian, Heart, Humility

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

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  Two, Suffering, Excess

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.133, David C Cook

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• Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

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  Humble, Humility, Thinking

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• All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

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  Happiness, War, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.114, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Letters

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

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  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

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  Too Much, Enough, Ifs

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• The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

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  Intelligent, Men, Originality

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• 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 contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

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  Hate, Men, Good Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

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  Knowing, Sin, Wells

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

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  Real, Doubt, Needs

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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  Strength, Umpires, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

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  Beautiful, Men, People

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• All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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  Letting Go, Being Alone, Feelings

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

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  Moving, Rushing, Acting

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