Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and… — Novalis Copy Share Image
... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
When one does something, one must go back to the ancients. — Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre 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
