Blaise Pascal Quotes About Doubt
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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
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There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.
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