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Blaise Pascal Quotes

Blaise Pascal quotes

French Philosopher, Mathematician June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662

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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "We never love a person, but only qualities."
We never love a person, but only qualities. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must..."
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from..."
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "When one does not love too much, one does not love enough."
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough. Blaise Pascal
Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed him. since the middle station allotted to us is always far from the extremes, what does it matter if someone else has a slightly better understanding of things? If he has, and if he takes them a little further, is he not still infinitely remote from the goal? Is not our span of life equally infinitesimal in eternity, even if it is extended by ten years? In the perspective of... Blaise Pascal
I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never have been if my mother had been killed before I had come to life; therefore I am not a necessary being. I am not eternal or infinite eithe? Blaise Pascal
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? Memoria hospitis... Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend..."
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Blaise Pascal
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves. Blaise Pascal
When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it—memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis (remembrance of a guest who tarried but a day)—the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here?... Blaise Pascal
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there? now instead of then. Blaise Pascal
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer,..."
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Blaise Pascal

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