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PASCAL, BLAISE : Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor is the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith — God felt by the heart, not by the reason. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

PASCAL, BLAISE : All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)