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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 18

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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Doubt, Obscurity, Looks

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

Philosophical, Writing, Heart

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Philosophy, Light, Morality

Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.16, Lulu.com

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Inspiration, Men, Monsters

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.133, Letcetera Publishing

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

Math, Play, Tennis

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

By thought I embrace the universe.

Embrace, Universe

Blaise Pascal (1947). “Pascal's pensées”

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

Change, Continuity

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Causes, Pleading, Wells

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

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Modern Life, Able, Trouble

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

Christian, Miracle, Should

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

Running, Ignorance, Knowledge

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

Law, Break Through, Choices

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Two, Principles, Ridiculous

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Amusement, Deceiving, Graves

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.94

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Fashion, Justice, Matter

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

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

War, Evil, Wish

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Uncertain, Certain, Translations

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

Spring, Heart, Roots

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.91

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Book, Reading, Books And Reading

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.31, Letcetera Publishing

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

Opportunity, Men, Errors

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Evil, Add, Investing

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Simple, Reason, Accepted

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

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Blessing, Men, Knowing

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Believe, Voice, Belief

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.108, Open Road Media

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Moving, Rivers, Water

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.23, Open Road Media

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