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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 13

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Man is neither angel nor beast.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Angel, Men, Beast

c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.358.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Nature, Motivation, Ocean

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Faith, Spiritual, Sleep

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.110, Open Road Media

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

Inspirational, God, Friday

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

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Math, Space, Silence

"The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Life, Grief, Offended You

Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.85, tredition

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Winning, Light, Mind

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.502

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Men, Differences, Ordinary

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Writing, Heart, Men

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Truth, May, Trust In God

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Hate, Lying, Important

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Knowledge, Science, Littles

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

Greatness, Men, Circles

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

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

Believe, Men, Inward

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

Heart, Giving, Reason

Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

Jesus, Useless, Impossible

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

Vanity, Curiosity, Shows

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

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

Death, Fate, Men

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Love, Inspiring, Inspirational Life

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Stupid, Justice, Tools

"Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Strong, Childhood, Immaturity

Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.40, Lulu.com

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

Apology, Praying, Excuse

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Christian, Environmental, And Love

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.294

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Struggle, Blessing, Boredom

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

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