Blaise Pascal Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Soul, Investing

• Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

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  Beautiful, Meaningful, Kindness

• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

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  Beautiful, Men, People

• Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

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  Men, Soul, Kind

• The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Soul, Doubt

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

• No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

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  Betrayal, Soul, Weakness

• 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.

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  Beautiful, Uplifting, Kindness

• 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.

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  Passion, Men, Boredom

• One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

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  Men, Practice, Names

• We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

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  Respect, Men, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.95

• 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.

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  Greatness, Two, Knowing

• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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  Time, Believe, Numbers

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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  Soul, Feelings, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

• Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

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  Cutting, Small Objects, Imagination

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

• No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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  Two, Understanding, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

• There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

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  Sadness, Passion, Men

• Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

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  Simple, Laughing, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

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  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

• The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

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  Talking, Imagination, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

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  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

• Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

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  Pride, Thinking, Wind

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

• It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

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  Independent, Differences, Decision

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.215

• Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

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  Spring, Heart, Roots

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.91

• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

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  Sex, Greatness, Men

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

• Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

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  Soul, Great Souls

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