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“Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?”

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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Author:Blaise Pascal

“Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.”

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Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

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“Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.”

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Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.”

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Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?”

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“There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.”

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Book:Pensées and Other Writings

Source: Pensées and Other Writings

“If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

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Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal