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Blaise Pascal Quotes: 20

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."(Letter 16, 1657)
The Provincial Letters
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.
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