Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

— Blaise Pascal

Let each of us examine his thoughts

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

— Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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By thought I embrace the universe.

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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

— Blaise Pascal

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

— Blaise Pascal

All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.

— Blaise Pascal

“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

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Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then…

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“As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting,…

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Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think…

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I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience…

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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday…

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It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no…

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“I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think…

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“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do…

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One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no…

— Blaise Pascal

Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des…

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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest…

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Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us…

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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore…

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All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have…

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“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the…

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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

— Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

— Blaise Pascal