Blaise Pascal Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• 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?

  Blaise Pascal

  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

• For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most
  remote from it?

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Age, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

• Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

  Blaise Pascal

  Running, Ignorance, Knowledge

• All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Christian, Passion

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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