“Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.”
—Blaise Pascal.
“Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.”
—Blaise Pascal.
“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.”
—Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
—Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”
—Blaise Pascal.
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
—Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662).
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
—Blaise Pascal.
“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.” -Blaise Pascal.
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
—Blaise Pascal.
“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
—Blaise Pascal.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ”
—Blaise Pascal.
“If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy. ”
“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. ”
Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ”
Blaise Pascal
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ”
Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
“We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. ”
Blaise Pascal
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ”
—Blaise Pascal
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
—Blaise Pascal
Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
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Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. –Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and that whatever is powerful may be just.
– Blaise Pascal.