Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.
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Man is full of desires he loves only those who can satisfy them all. 'This man is a good mathematician,' someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics he would take me for a proposition. 'That one is a good soldier.' He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.Blaise Pascal
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ then we shall find a peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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