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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#each #embraces #faith #many #other

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#diversion #happy #make #order #our

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#battles #certain #certainty #how #many

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#blunt #justice #our #points #subtle

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#beyond #either #established #fangs #fixes

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#body #calls #cast #dimension #else

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evident #god #love #miracles #must

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#charm #death #even #every #fame

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#infinity #last #nothing #proceeding #reason

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#badly #draw #minds #more #place