Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 13

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• Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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  Nature, Men, Two

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• Things are always at their best in their beginning.

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  New Beginnings

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• One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

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  Talking, Judging, Ordinary

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

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• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
  another than from himself at different times.

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  Men, Diversity, Principles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.409, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

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  Death, Loss, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

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  Believe, Men, Fool

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

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• The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.
  [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

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  Believe, Miracle, May

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• If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

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  Soldier, Complaining, Hardship

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

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  Christian, Heart, Veils

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• Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

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  Order, Saint, Charity

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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

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  Prayer, Causality, Dignity

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

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• Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

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  Men

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• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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  Inspiring, Nature, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

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  Math, Space, Silence

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• Man is neither angel nor beast.

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  Angel, Men, Beast

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.358.

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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  Men, Differences, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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  Inspirational, God, Friday

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.155, David C Cook

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• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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  Life, Grief, Offended You

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.85, tredition

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• God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

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  Winning, Light, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.502

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• Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

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  Believe, Simple, Water

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, Section III: On the Necessity of the Wager (184-241), 1669.

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• He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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  Truth, May, Trust In God

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• It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

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  Gratitude, Love Is, Allies

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• Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

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  Hate, Lying, Important

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• Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

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  Writing, Heart, Men

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