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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 27

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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?

Men, Age, Doe

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

Doctrine, Done, Causes

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

Doe, Existence, Cease

"The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Amusement, Illness, Retiring

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.130, Courier Corporation

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

Moving, Rivers, Wish

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

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Death, Thinking, Bears

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

Self, Soul, Austerity

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Real, Eloquence, Pleasant

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

Honor, Speak, Teach

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section I: Thoughts on Mind and Style), 1669.

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

Names, House, Tree

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Deception, Novelty, Deceiving

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Loss, Winning, Lost Friendship

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

Humble, Humility, Pride

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Hope, Pride, Despair

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Spiritual, Giving, Waiting

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.80, Courier Corporation

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Silly, Insanity, Doe

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

Love, Math, Men

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

Men, Differences, People

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Future, Mean, Past

Blaise Pascal (1727). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects”, p.178

What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?

Christian, Believe, Men

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Vanity, Causes, Cases

Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.54, David C Cook

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Queens, Use, World

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Greatness, Men, Feelings

Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.

Self, Hateful

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Wisdom, Intelligence, Fool

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.135, Open Road Media

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