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Action Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
- What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe…
- 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…
- On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
- In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
- All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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