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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 21

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Depression, Men, Mad

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Truth, Contradiction, Mathematics

"Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth". Book by George Englebretsen (p. 153), 2006.

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

Comfort, Found, Console

'Pensèes' (1670) no. 553

What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.

Men, Desire, Looks

Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Common, Familiar

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.513

L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.

Facts

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Change, Lying, Dies

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Ancient, Infancy, Mankind

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Hate, Men, Charity

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

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Truth, Pride, Men

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Knowledge, Men, Secret

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

Kings, Diminish

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.30, Open Road Media

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Desire, Our Actions, Causes

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Life, Two, Heaven

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Sight, Misery, Instinct

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

Fall, Mean, Vices

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.49, Letcetera Publishing

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Philosophy, Scorn

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Art, Fun, Philosophy

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Eloquence

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

Science, Winning, Mind

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

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

Greatness, Men, Tree

"Selections from The Thoughts".

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Greatness, Vanity, People

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

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Truth, Darkness, Would Be

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Justice, Climate, Degrees

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Fog, Weather, Connections

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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