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Blaise Pascal Quotes

True and false objects

Blaise Pascal

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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.

The Pensées (1670)

Was born on: 19.06.1623
About Author: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher

Religion

Order. -Men despise religion; they hate it and fear it is true. To remedy this, we must begin by showing that religion is not contrary to reason; that it is venerable, to inspire respect for it; then we must make it lovable, to make good men hope it is true; finally, we must prove it is true.

The Pensées (1670)

Beliefs and attraction

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

The Art of Persuasion

Wretched man

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar state of his disposition; and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient to amuse him.

The Pensées (1670)

The conduct of God

The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror.

The Pensées (1670)

Little objects

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

The Pensées (1670)

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