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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 23

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No animal admires another animal.

No animal admires another animal.

Animal, Pet, Admire

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

Philosophy, Giving, Needs

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.23, Courier Corporation

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

Drains, Feels

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

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Heart, Listening, Ears

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Death, Men, Agony

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.369

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

Men, Order, Religion

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Love Is, Thinking, Needs

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Math, Religion, Trouble

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Math, Depth, Demand

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Passion, Men, Spirit

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Judging, Sake, Authority

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

Moving, Rivers, Wish

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Should Have, Mind, Doe

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

Math, Hands, Judging

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

Dream, Sleep, Men

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.96

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Work, Distance, Math

Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

Different, Earth, Faces

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Fall, Perfect, Reason

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Happiness, Greatest Love, Amusement

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Book, Men, Giving

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.96

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Inspirational, Book, Writing

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

Kings, Tyrants, Roi

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Truth, Responsibility, Fighting

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

Spring, War, Passion

"Pensées and Other Writings".

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

Philosophy, Philosophical, Ridicule

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