Blaise Pascal Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Government, Space, Atoms

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.104, Lulu.com

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Morality

• Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Principles, Morality

  "Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

• Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Prayer, Causality, Dignity

  "The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce".

• All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Ridiculous, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

• All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Dignity, Our Thoughts

• Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Men, Thinking

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

• The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Men, Despair

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Dignity

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

• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Desire, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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