We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship. - Blaise Pascal
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We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Louis de Montalte
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Amos Dettonville
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Salomon de Tultie
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Paskal Blez
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Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were, they would be wrong.
Let us then take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
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