959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

  • Author Blaise Pascal
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    The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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    If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

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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.

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    Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

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    Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

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    What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

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