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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
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«Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable»
«Two kinds of persons know Him: those who have a humble heart, and who love lowliness, whatever kind of intellect they may have, high or low; and those who have sufficient understanding to see the truth, whatever opposition they may have to it.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
humble, opposition, sufficient
«We like to be deceived.»
«We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
actually, imaginary, imaginary being, real life, satisfied, seem, to seem
«Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
Believe It Or Not, bet, betting, Christianity, eternity, Everything or Nothing, false, gained, get to, Good Life, good turn, hell, illusion, I Bet You, marked, out to, Peace of God, spend, submit, submitting, turns, ultimately, you bet
«Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
apart, christ, despair, Jesus, Jesus Christ, misery, vice
«Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
defects, image, Imaged, Image An, Image The, imaging, my image, The Image, this image
«We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.»
«The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
quietly, sole, unhappiness
«If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Evil,
God,
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
blindness, extraordinary, investigated, investigates, investigating
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