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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 4

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Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Reason, Method, Knows

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Sleep, Thinking, Different

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

Beautiful, Men, People

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Light, Desire, Obscurity

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.118, Courier Corporation

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Beautiful, Meaningful, Kindness

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

Knowing, Sin, Wells

"Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Math, Intelligence, Uncertain

Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce”, p.99

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

Death, Jesus, Joy

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 176, 1895.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Love, Inspirational, Passion

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Believe, Heart, Men

Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.38

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Men, Hypocrisy, Doe

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Men, World, Rooms

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Cheating, Foundation, Mutual

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Philosophy, Ridicule

Imagination decides everything.

Inspirational, Teacher, Imagination

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

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Divinity, Bears, Earth

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

Want, Opinion, Ifs

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Men, Littles, Strange

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Men, Scandal, Glory

Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.162

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love, Quality, Persons

Blaise Pascal (1946). “Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion”

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Truth, Lying, Men

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil, Infinite, Easy

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Reign, Truth Is, Crime

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

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

Mean, Vanity, People

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

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Happiness, Searching For Happiness, Exception

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