It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... 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 enough to amuse him.Blaise Pascal
Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.
Blaise Pascal
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example of good and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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