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Ideas of Blaise Pascal, by Text
[French, 1623 - 1662, Scientist and mathematician, and then Christian mystic. A Jansenist. Poor health.]
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p.164
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10121
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth
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44 (82)
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p.41
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6677
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Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good
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47 (172)
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p.43
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6678
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We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present
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57 (379)
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p.45
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6679
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It is not good to be too free
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60 (294)
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p.46
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6680
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It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river
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77 (152)
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p.50
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6681
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We only want to know things so that we can talk about them
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85 (878)
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p.52
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6682
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Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever
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110 p.58
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p.91
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22011
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The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart
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40 (134)
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p.38
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6676
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Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals
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418 (233)
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p.66
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7455
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Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Hacking]
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418 (233)
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p.68
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7456
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The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking]
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418 (233)
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p.68
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7457
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Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking]
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418 (233)
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p.150
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6684
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If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing
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423 (277)
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p.154
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6675
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing
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p.199
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p.-9
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If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified
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