Quotes Tagged With :pascal

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide....

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of....

We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but....

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they....

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might....

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of....

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing....

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness....