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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 19

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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Infinite

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Truth, Believe, Men

"Of the Geometrical Spirit". Book by Blaise Pascal, 2015.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Wise, Imagination, Fool

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

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Truth, Men, Moon

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sentiments, Reasoning

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Time, Passion, Years

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.198, Courier Corporation

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Determine, Customs

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.102, Letcetera Publishing

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

Faith, Heart, Two

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Education, Intuition, Natural

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

Gratitude, Loss, Imagination

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Mediocrity, Possession, Native

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Happiness, God, Men

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Feelings, Sentiments, Reasoning

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Greatness, Men, Class

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

Life, Passion, Heart

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

Real, Vanity, Hypocrisy

Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Time, Morality, Morale

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Faith, Perception, Contrary

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

Independent, Men, Giving

Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.109

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Time, Ignorance, Knowledge

c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.

Faith, Inspiration, Believe

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Life, Heart, Perfect

"Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Math, Men, Doe

c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Nature, Firsts, Habit

Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Men, Desire, Strange

Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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