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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 16

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The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Heart, Mind, Principles

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Mean, Past, Ends

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Knowledge, Sight, World

Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.31, Lulu.com

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Struggle, Men, Anxiety

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.66, Open Road Media

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Freedom, Democracy, Reason

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

Sadness, Passion, Men

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Jesus, Vacuums, Christ

Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

Views, Two, Mind

c.1653 Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

Appreciate, World, Parole

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

Horse, Believe, Math

"Pensees".

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

Appreciation, Men, Differences

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Usual, Common, Born

Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Faithful, Church, Ransom

Blaise Pascal (1846). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.259

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Government, Space, Atoms

Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.104, Lulu.com

Not to be mad is another form of madness

Inspirational, Mad, Madness

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Lasts, Infinity, Reason

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

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

"Pensées".

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Math, Vanity, People

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

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Men, Independence, Needs

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Freedom, Greed, Want

"Pensées".

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Teaching, Eloquence, Tedious

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature, Math, Garden

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Vanity, Painting, Vain

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Blindness, Prove, Zeal

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thought of Blaise Pascal: Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul...”

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

Art, Believe, Men

"The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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