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Thought For the Day: Truth Is So Obscure In These Times, and Falsehood So Established, That Unless We Love the Truth, We Cannot Know It
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” – Blaise Pascal
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Thought For the Day: There Are Only Two Kinds of Men: the Righteous Who Think They Are Sinners and the Sinners Who Think They Are Righteous
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.” – Blaise Pascal
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Thought For the Day: Truth Is So Obscure In These Times, and Falsehood So Established, That, Unless We Love the Truth, We Cannot Know It
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” – Blaise Pascal
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First Principles: If I Believe In God and Life After Death and You Do Not, and If There Is No God, We Both Lose When We Die. However, If There Is A God, You Still Lose and I Gain Everything
“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.” – Blaise … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Least Movement Is of Importance To All Nature. The Entire Ocean Is Affected By A Pebble
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” – Blaise Pascal
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Thought For the Day: There Are Only Two Kinds of Men: the Righteous Who Believe Themselves Sinners; the Sinners Who Believe Themselves Righteous
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.” – Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662)
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Thought For the Day: Experience Teaches Us the Huge Gap Between Piety and Goodness
“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.” -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662)
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Thought For the Day: Kindness Costs Little While Accomplishing Much
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Pascal – Discourse On the Passion of Love
We have previously discussed the life and legacy of Blaise Pascal. This being Valentine’s Day, it seems there might be no better time than today to introduce his Discourse On the Passion of Love. Discourse on the Passion of Love may … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Heart Has Its Reasons
“The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” – Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
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