Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no Blaise Pascal erringimitationworld The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals. Blaise Pascal machinesdoeanimal It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart. Blaise Pascal understandingdivineheart Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also. Blaise Pascal readingmathwriting The only shame is to have none. Blaise Pascal shameguilt Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. Blaise Pascal demanddepthmath Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus. Blaise Pascal uselessimpossiblejesus There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God. Blaise Pascal mercy-of-goddoemen The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. Blaise Pascal limitsendsthinking Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. Blaise Pascal wishriversmoving That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false. Blaise Pascal queensrealcharacter Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world? Blaise Pascal pridewindthinking Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion. Blaise Pascal passionspiritmen What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. Blaise Pascal vanitystrangepain How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there? Blaise Pascal hatebelievejesus The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal vanitycausesignorance Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. Blaise Pascal apologyexcusepraying A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. Blaise Pascal greatnesstouchingmen 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 battlejourneysea How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. Blaise Pascal immaturitychildhoodstrong
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