Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 24

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• It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

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  Drains, Feels

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• No animal admires another animal.

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  Animal, Pet, Admire

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• We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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  Heart, Listening, Ears

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

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  Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

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• However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

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  Spiritual, Passion, Math

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• Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

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  Passion, Men, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

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  Math, Religion, Trouble

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

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  Judging, Sake, Authority

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

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• Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

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  Math, Hands, Judging

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• Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

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  Different, Earth, Faces

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• One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

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  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.96

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• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

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  Men, Race, Progress

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• Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

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  Reasonable, Ought, Declaring

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.186

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• We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

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  Time, Math, Long

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• To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
  [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ridicule

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• Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

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  Nature, Reality, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

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  Real, Communication, Science

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• The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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  Confusion, Unity, Tyranny

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

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• Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

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  Book, Men, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.96

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• On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

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  Spring, War, Passion

  "Pensées and Other Writings".

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• When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

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  God, Thinking, Evil

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.214

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• All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

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  Mistake, Lying, Math

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• The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

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  Inspirational, Book, Writing

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• La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

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  Things In Life, Important, Chance

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• I know whom I have believed.

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  Faith, Knows

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