The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Blaise Pascal
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More Quotes By Blaise Pascal
  1. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

  2. I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

  3. I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

  4. To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

  5. To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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