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A few from Blaise Pascal

 
 
Reply Sat 8 Mar, 2008 12:45 pm
Blaise Pascal, from his unfinished :

"Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason."

"The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced."

"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing"

"What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm of the earth; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe. Who shall unravel this confusion?"
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2009 09:37 pm
@NeitherExtreme,
The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end.

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

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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