Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the… - Blaise Pascal

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Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.

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Alternative Names: Pascal • Louis de Montalte • Amos Dettonville • Dettonville • Paskal Blez

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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Weaklings are those who know the truth, but maintain it only as far as it is in their interest to do so, and apart from that forsake it.

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