An idea from Pensées

Suppose the sum convinces you and you still can’t believe. Stop hunting for proofs, and copy people who began where you are: take the holy water, have masses said. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness. The doubter answers that this is what he’s afraid of.

From Pensées by Blaise Pascal

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