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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 22

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Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Movement, Absolutes

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Book, Lasts, Firsts

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Justice, Blind, Resemblance

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Appearance, Reason, Inconstancy

Blaise Pascal (2014). “Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book”, p.265, Courier Corporation

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Tears, I Can

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.87

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

Men, Thinking, Hands

Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Men, Evil, Rooms

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

Believe, Witness, Throat

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

Passion, Heart, Sadness

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Giving, Dignity

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

Art, Independent, Natural

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

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Nature, World, Visible

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Talking, Imagination, Soul

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Soul, Great Souls

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

Evil, Gist, Divine

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Law, Imagination, Earth

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

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Admiration, Infancy, Spoil

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

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

God, Bravery, Cowardice

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

Passion, Men, Deception

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

Spiritual, Passion, Math

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Our Actions, Causes, Morality

Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “Penses”, Hackett Publishing

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Anniversary, Age, Wedding Anniversary

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