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If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense.
15 gru 2015 · Search within the 153 Blaise Pascal Quotes. Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. - Blaise Pascal. 116. Jesus. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. - Blaise Pascal.
778 quotes from Blaise Pascal: 'The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.', 'All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.', and 'I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love. Blaise Pascal. 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. Blaise Pascal.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal. God, Heart, Existentialism. Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
21 sie 2007 · One of the most famous and most extensive notes in the Pensées (Fragment 397: II, 676–81) is the so-called ‘wager’ in favour of belief in God. Cole (1995, Chapter 15) argues that Pascal exhibited signs of manic depression and an almost infantile dependence on his family in his mature years.
18 paź 2016 · But because the perception of reason is bounded by passion, we cannot assure ourselves and are always suspicious. When we love, we are persuaded that we shall discover the passion of another: thus we are afraid. The longer the way is in love, the greater is the pleasure that a sensitive mind feels in it.
