Beneath the surface Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beneath the surface Care Language Satisfied Surface World
The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.] — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“How should words presume themselves as bandages and slings when the world limps onward, and you've darkened it? And words be damned, for if… — Ros Barber Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?” “No. I’m looking for something more.” “More than love?” “Yes.” “Is… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface. — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
“The burning glow of fire basked him in a warm light. I feared to look at him, to study him again after the train,… — Rae Z. Ryans Copy Share Image
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But, hello, it's… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall Copy Share Image
“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the Earth. But man has only to sink beneath… — Jaques Barzun Cousteau Copy Share Image
