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“God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.”

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

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The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

This book includes Pascal's famous 'Pensees', a series of reflections on faith, reason, and human nature, as well as his letters and other philosophical works. more

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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

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“I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.”

Thinking Years Mind Persons Said Matter Facts Principles Hundred Reasonable Twelve Incapable Augustine

Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

“In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.”

People Men Real Faces Form Order Lost Strong Taken Trouble Conditions Kings Capacity Casts Islands Tempest Resemblance Real Knowledge

Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.”

Common Familiar

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“No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.”

Two Soul Understanding Opinion Ignorant Principal Avenues

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.”

World Method Guides Imitation Demonstration Erring

Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.”

Mind Foolish Ridiculous Manners Vain Artificial Inflation Unnatural Vigorous Presumption Elevation

Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

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“The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.”

Men Different Pleasure Principles Mankind Particular Diversity Firm Stable Variables Different Times

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.”

Knows Giving Mean Stills Hours Pleasure Objects Fixed Fewer Discourse Adapting Caprice Inconstancy

Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.”

Men Want Looks Able Desire Opinion Objects Masters Submit Noblemen

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“Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.”

Knows Humans Order Divine Charity Saint Contrary

Author:Blaise Pascal