Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 26

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• Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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  Law, Reason, Reasonable

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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  Deeds, Ugly, Goodness

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• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

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  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

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• Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

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  Fire, Philosopher, Forget

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• May God never abandon me.

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  May, Last Words, Abandon

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

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  Reason

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• We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

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  Doubt, Doe, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of
  Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

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  Thinking, Years, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.510

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• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find
  their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

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  Strong, Kings, Real

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.382, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

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  Pride, Men, Despair

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy,
  such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity".
  "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

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  Life, Heart, Wind

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• There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
  rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

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  Mean, Giving, Hours

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.410, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal
  in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.

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  Kings, Men, Circles

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.387, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

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  Discovery, People, Mind

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no
  true demonstrations.

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  World, Erring, Imitation

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.512

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• The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

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  Animal, Doe, Machines

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

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  Reading, Writing, Math

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• It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

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  Should

  Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.289

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• The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

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  Science, People, Inability

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• When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

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  Views, Wish, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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  Faith, Embrace, Seems

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.280, Letcetera Publishing

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• The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

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  Play, Forever, Earth

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• Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

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  Space, Silence, Infinite

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.206 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

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  Real, Eloquence, Pleasant

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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