All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there. Blaise Pascal style passion knowing 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. Blaise Pascal heart writing men The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. Blaise Pascal inability science people When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true. Blaise Pascal matter views wish Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better. Blaise Pascal tennis play math Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. Blaise Pascal damage perfect math When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Blaise Pascal hard-life soldier giving Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this. Blaise Pascal crush men thinking If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough. Blaise Pascal squares healing art Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation. Blaise Pascal causality dignity prayer We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. Blaise Pascal respect soul men The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. Blaise Pascal powerful night world ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known. Blaise Pascal opinion truth men Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. Blaise Pascal wedding-anniversary anniversary age If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate! Blaise Pascal next spiritual believe The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation. Blaise Pascal christian doe order We like to be deceived. Blaise Pascal deceived deception Law, without force, is impotent. Blaise Pascal lawyer force law We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare. Blaise Pascal example evil sight All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. Blaise Pascal happiness men mean
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