Blaise Pascal quotes

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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to ...
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowled ...
Let us then examine this point, and say, "God is, or he is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing her ...
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to prov ...
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were su ...
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the i ...
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 un ...
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradic ...
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