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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 225 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician, scientist, philosopher. Pensées, no. 412, p. 148, trans. by and ed. A.J. Krailsheimer, Penguin, Baltimore (1966).
Pensées are diverse writings and notes that Pascal left at the time of his death. They are the classic presentation of his ideas.)
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Continuous eloquence wearies.... Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 355 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 33 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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We do not concern ourselves about being esteemed in towns through which we pass. But if we are to remain a while there, we are so concerned. How long is necessary? A time commensurate with our vain and paltry life.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 149 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 352 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. Pensées, no. 821 (c. 1659).)
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