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Blaise Pascal Quotes
«Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
at rest, dependence, diversion, diversions, forlornness, insufferable, insufficiency, nothingness, weariness
«I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
Descartes, dispense with, fillip
«It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Charity,
Zeal
| Keywords:
wounding, zeal
«Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Laughter,
Soul,
Tears
| Keywords:
inclinations, presented, presents
«How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
boasting, expectation, hopeless, impenetrable, occurs, Reasonable man
«The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Ethics,
Ignorance,
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
affliction, console, physical science, sciences, the sciences
«Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Killing,
Stupidity
| Keywords:
Other side, ruler, stupider, The other side
«If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
complains, hardships, laborer, soldier