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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 28

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En un mot, l'homme conna|t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

Men, Miserable, Worthy

c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.416.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

Christian, Believe, Mistaken

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.86, Letcetera Publishing

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.

Art, Perfection, Definitions

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.506

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Unique, Greatness, Class

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Knowing, Misery, Mankind

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Miracle, Doe, Prove It

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.268, Letcetera Publishing

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

Men, Boredom, Anxiety

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

Order, Truly Happy, Diversion

"Pensées".

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

Men, Errors, Grace

c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.83 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

Space, Infinite, Eternity

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

Fall, Hands, Two

Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.120, David C Cook

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Doctors, Matter, Moral

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

Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.

Mean, Eye, Men

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Reputation, Fame, Charm

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

Religion, May, Being True

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

Confusion, Confusing, Unity

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

Death, Real, Vanity

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Sight, Evil, Example

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.205

Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

Men, World, Mature

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

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Men, Impossible, Study

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Weakness, Reason, Humans

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.73

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Principles, Natural, Customs

"Pensées".

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

Unhappy, Fool, Reason

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.263

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

Fall, Cutting, Vices

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

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Men, Style, Sake

Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.579

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