Author Topic: ~ Blaise Pascal Quotes (Read 6868 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** January 24, 2014, 11:20:42 AM »

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** January 24, 2014, 11:24:09 AM »

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** January 24, 2014, 11:25:52 AM »

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** January 24, 2014, 11:26:45 AM »

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** January 24, 2014, 11:28:03 AM »

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** January 24, 2014, 11:59:42 AM »

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:00:49 PM »

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:02:01 PM »

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:03:05 PM »

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:04:11 PM »

I maintain that if everyone knew what others said about him there would not be four friends in the world.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:05:18 PM »

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:06:16 PM »

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:07:16 PM »

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:08:17 PM »

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** January 24, 2014, 12:09:15 PM »

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

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