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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 7

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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Men, Soul, Kind

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Greatness, Men, Touching

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Beautiful, Passion, Excess

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Heart, Two, People

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.58, Courier Corporation

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Eloquence

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

Greatness, Two, Knowing

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Mind, Chess, Gymnasiums

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

Atheist, Mean, Sleep

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Men, Firsts, Study

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Eloquence, Scorn

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

Men, Motive, Exception

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

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

Beautiful, Uplifting, Kindness

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Humanity, Lust, Our Actions

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.30, Open Road Media

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Charity, Scripture, Sole

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

Two, Reason, Dangerous

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

Views, Sides, Argument

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Atheist, Mind, Atheism

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.

Believe, Ignorance, Angel

Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, p.28, Penguin UK

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Irresistible

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

Love, Memories, Men

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Heart, Understanding, Divine

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Inspirational, Littles, Little Things

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

Thinking, Limits, Ends

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

Passion, Men, Boredom

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