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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 8

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Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

Reality, Men, Cells

Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Friendship, Gossip, World

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Believe, Evil, Blindness

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Heart, Grace, Mind

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.68, Cosimo, Inc.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Jesus, Men, Darkness

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Annoyed, Secret, Found

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

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Memorial Day, War, Rivers

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Death, Painful, Contemplation

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Heart, Men, Hollow

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Philosopher

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.174, Open Road Media

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Nature, Firsts, Habit

"Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Travel, Lying, Journey

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

Trifles, Distress, Console

"Pensées".

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Amusement, Sake, Deceiving

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Art, Order, Justice

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

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

Pain, Reflection, Self

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Blood, Hands, Flesh

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

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Time, Past, Thinking

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.75

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Life, Men, Anxiety

"Pensées" (1669), Article VI. 46 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Pain, Men, Facts

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Talking, People, Judging

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

Use, World, Opinion

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Writing, Mathematical, Please

To understand is to forgive.

Forgiveness, Understanding, Forgiving

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Math, Perfect, Damage

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