“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Imagination decides everything.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
— Blaise Pascal
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