Tag: Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal: Justified strength
“Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Blaise Pascal: Experience
“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
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Blaise Pascal: Four friends
“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).
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Blaise Pascal: Mediocrity
“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.
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Blaise Pascal: Contradiction
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662).
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Blaise Pascal: What they find attractive
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Blaise Pascal: Virtue
“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.” -Blaise Pascal.
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Blaise Pascal: Contradiction
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Blaise Pascal: Religious conviction
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). Embed from Getty Images
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Blaise Pascal: Uncertainty
“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. Embed from Getty Images
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Blaise Pascal: Happiness
“If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy. ” –—Blaise Pascal.
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Blaise Pascal: Reasonable
“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
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Blaise Pascal: Friendship
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ” Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal: Faith
“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
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Blaise Pascal: The long and short of it
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. —Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal: The ear and the heart
“We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. ” Blaise Pascal Related articles Why We Write: Blaise Pascal(ctwesting.com)
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Blaise Pascal: Contradiction
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ” —Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal: Limits
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. —Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal: Words and meanings
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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Blaise Pascal: Different meanings, different effects
Image via Wikipedia 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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Blaise Pascal: Justice and power
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.
Quite a Quote! 