Pascal

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    It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)