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For it is to judgment that perception belongs, as science belongs to intellect. Intuition is the part of judgment, mathematics of intellect.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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But is it probable that probability gives assurance?
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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I have a hundred times wished that if a God maintains Nature, she should testify to Him unequivocally, and that, if the signs she gives are deceptive, she should suppress them altogether.
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One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
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Mathematicians who are only mathematicians have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear.
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Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.
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Nature has placed us so well in the middle that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also.
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Because... you have believed from childhood that a box was empty when you saw nothing in it, you have believed in the possibility of a vacuum.
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If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
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We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
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Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image.
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We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
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The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.
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Take away probability, and you can no longer please the world; give probability, and you can no longer displease it.
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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
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The spaces of the universe enfold me and swallow me up like a speck; but I, by the power of thought, may comprehend the universe.
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
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We believe we are far more capable of reaching the center of things than of embracing their circumference.
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It is as impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole as to know the whole without knowing the particular parts.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Born:
June 19, 1623
Died:
August 19, 1662
(aged 39)
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