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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 14

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It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws,

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

Thinking, Law, People

Blaise Pascal, Richard Henry Popkin (1989). “Pascal selections”, Macmillan Pub Co

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Running, Aging, Precipice

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.79, Open Road Media

The stream is always purer at its source.

Purity, Source, Streams

"Lettres Provinciales". IV, 1657.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Life, Hope To Live, Arranging

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Heart, Math, Reason

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

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

Atheist, Loss, Knowing

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Vanity, Arena, Form

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Sides, May, Orthodoxy

Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.183

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Integrity, Enthusiasm, Reason

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

Love, Math, Views

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Mean, Eye, Interest

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Law, Justice, Examination

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

Pain, Distance, Light

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.83

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

Love, Doubt, Facts

Blaise Pascal, Prosper Faugère (1849). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal: Consisting of Letters, Essays, Conversations, and Miscellaneous Thoughts (the Greater Part Hertofore Unpublished in this Country, and a Large Portion from Original Mss.)”, p.132

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

People, Wish, Speech

"Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal. Volume 6, 59, 1669.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Powerful, Justice, Together

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Obedience, Should, Strongest

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Nature, Order, Perfection

"Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Funny, God, Humorous

"Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

Mean, Humanity, Majority

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Death, Dying

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.37, Courier Corporation

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Atheist, Soul, Doubt

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

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

Powerful, Night, World

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Long, Letters, Leisure

Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal”, p.339

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Humble, Humility, Pride

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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