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«Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Reason
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commands, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, former, imperiously, latter, punished
«Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
fortunate, imparted, insight, intuition, justly, reasoning
«The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.»
«Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.»
«Who would desire to have for a friend a man who talks in this fashion? Who would choose him out from others to tell him of his affairs? Who would have recourse to him in affliction? And indeed to what use in life could one put him?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
affliction, recourse, talks
«It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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charms, deceive, impressions, novelties, novelty
«Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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at rest, entertainment, intolerable
«If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.»
«Immateriality of the soul, philosophers who have mastered their passions. What matter could do that?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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immateriality, mastered, philosophers
«It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.»
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