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“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”

Book:The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce

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The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce

This volume presents a translation of Blaise Pascal's writings on religious belief and the rational grounds for Christianity, as prepared by translator G. Pearce. The work includes an introductory essay and explanatory notes that contextualize Pascal's arguments. Pascal's original text, often known as the Pensées, is a collection of fragments and meditations that explore the human condition, the nature of faith, and the evidence for Christian revelation. The translation aims to make these philosophical and theological insights accessible to an English-speaking audience, while the supplementary material by Pearce provides guidance on the historical and intellectual background of Pascal's thought. more

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and theologian. He was born on June 19, 1623, and died on August 19, 1662. Pascal's contributions to mathematics were particularly significant, with groundbreaking work in probability theory, analytical geometry, and early calculus. more

“In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.”

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“Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.”

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Author:Dale Carnegie

“Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.”

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Author:Anita Brookner

“And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.”

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.”

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Author:Jerry Fodor

“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.”