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

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Great Great Ones Indifference Matters Men Sensitivity Small Strange

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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!

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Topics: Act Battles Certain Certainty How Many Must Ought Religion Save Sea Things Uncertainty

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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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Topics: Fact More Nothing Scepticism Some Than Were Who Would Wrong

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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Topics: Doctors Faith Feel Grave Infallible Like Matters Moral Pope Questions Security

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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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Topics: Able Against Be Happy Death Fight Happy Heads Ignorance Men Misery Order Taken Them Think

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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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Topics: Commands Far Fools Master More Other Reason Than Unfortunate Us

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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

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Topics: First Further Going He Himself How Incapable Know Made Man Object Part See Study Whole Would

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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

Topics: Beyond Infinity Last Nothing Reason Recognize Things Which

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1623

Died: August 19th, 1662

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