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He Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
- Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it…
- If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
- 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…
- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a…
- He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
- Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
- If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the…
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
- I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
- Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he… — Nelson Mandela