Quotes Tagged With :pascal

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and....

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not....

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

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences....

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

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

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

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

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

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