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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Giving

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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Giving, Vision, Sincere

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.317, Cosimo, Inc.

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

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Powerful, Giving

"Pensées".

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Wine, Giving, Littles

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Giving, Soldier, Hard Life

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

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Believe, Giving, Grace

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Art, Destiny, Giving

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

Heart, Giving, Reason

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Law, Giving, Grace

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

Independent, Men, Giving

Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.109

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Giving, Dignity

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

Philosophy, Giving, Needs

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.23, Courier Corporation

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Book, Men, Giving

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.96

There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

Mean, Giving, Hours

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.410, Cosimo, Inc.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Spiritual, Giving, Waiting

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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