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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 6

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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Giving, Complaining, Thanks

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.81, Courier Corporation

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Men, Inability, Rooms

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Ocean, Pebbles, Affected

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Lying, Dignity, Our Thoughts

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Victory, Delight, Contests

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

Heart, Pascal, Reason

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

Kings, Taken, Self

The property of power is to protect.

Power, Protect, Property

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.103, Letcetera Publishing

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Confusion, Unity, Doe

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.261, Courier Corporation

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Reason, Reason To Love

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Fear Not, Ifs

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Time, Believe, Numbers

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Lying, Duplicity, Dishonesty

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Men, Thinking, Morality

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Advice, Matter, Way

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Mind, Dull, Mathematical

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Faith, Men, Made

Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “Penses”, Hackett Publishing

Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

Wise, Fashion, Men

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Soul, Feelings, Matter

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Lying, People, People Who Lie

Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.136, Oxford University Press, USA

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

Yesterday, Achievement, Today

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Jesus, Garden, Race

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Truth, Long, Purpose

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

Real, Reason

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Friendship, Emotional, Behinds

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