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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 11

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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Speak, All Things, Knows

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Science, Space, Silence

Pensees no. 233 (1658)

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Beauty, Nature, Quality

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Wisdom, Truth, Heart

"Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated".

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

Queens, Tyrants, World

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

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

Humanity, Moderation, Outrage

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Thinking, Omnipotence, Imagination

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!

Journey, Sea, Battle

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

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Heart, Mind, Logic

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Truth, Heart, Trying

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

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

Giving, Soldier, Hard Life

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

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.

Life, Time, Nature

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

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

Easter, Atheist, Return

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.361

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

Brave, Deeds

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Enemy, Religion, Favour

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Death, Knows, Dies

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.55, Courier Corporation

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Desire, Misery, Certainty

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.136, Letcetera Publishing

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

People, Weak

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

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

Men, Evil, Inability

The war existing between the senses and reason.

War, Conflict, Reason

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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

Purity, Source, Streams

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

New Beginnings

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Believe, Giving, Grace

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Art, Destiny, Giving

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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