Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 12

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

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  Humanity, Moderation, Outrage

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• If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

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  Men, Pardon, Heal

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

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  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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  Men, Evil, Inability

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• Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

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  Queens, Tyrants, World

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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  Journey, Sea, Battle

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.87, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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  Inspirational, God, Friday

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.155, David C Cook

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• All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

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  Evil, Solitude, Stem

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• The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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  Struggle, Best Effort, Victory

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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  Would Be, Facts, Scepticism

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

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  Math, Perfect, Damage

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• Things are always at their best in their beginning.

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  New Beginnings

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• Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

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  Prayer, Causality, Dignity

  "The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce".

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• Let each of us examine his thoughts

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  Blaise Pascal (2014). “Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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  Love, Wedding, Men

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• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

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  Giving, Soldier, Hard Life

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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  Writing, Style, Natural

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• Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

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  People, Weak

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.14, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

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  Soldier, Complaining, Hardship

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

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  Vanity, Curiosity, Shows

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 152, 1669.

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• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
  another than from himself at different times.

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  Men, Diversity, Principles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.409, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The stream is always purer at its source.
  [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

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  Purity, Source, Streams

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• It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

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  Men, Judging, Causes

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.182

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• It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

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  Heart, Light, Proof

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• To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

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  Doubt, Unfair, Duty

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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