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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 5

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Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Nature, Roots, Mind

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Christian, Men, Two

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Truth And Falsehood, Knows, Falsehood

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Pride, Vanity, Curiosity

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

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

Errors, Effort, Risk

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

Faith, Limits, Reason

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Peace, Believe, Men

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Moving, Rushing, Acting

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Justice, Justified

Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Men, Reason, Impulse

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Business, Passion, Men

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

Two, Numbers, Achievement

We like to be deceived.

Deception, Deceived

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

Change, God, Knowledge

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Past, Thinking, Our Thoughts

"The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Childhood

Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.221, David C Cook

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Inspirational, Life, Deeds And Words

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

Men, Holes, Every Man

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Silence, Saint, Silent

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Peace, Men, Rivers

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Inspirational, Fake People, Appreciation

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Politics, Captains, Ships

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Religious, Believe, Doe

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Different, Effects, Different Meanings

Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.38, tredition

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Happiness, Knowing, Silence

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