Blaise Pascal

• “For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?”

• “Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”

• “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

• “Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.”

• “FEU. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob, non des philosophes et savants. Certitude. Certitude. Sentiment. Joie. Paix.”

• “C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…”

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Blaise Pascal across IJR