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Human Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
- Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we…
- By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science,…
- Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.
- The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
- To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within…
- Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one…
- Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is…
- The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
- Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
- All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
- Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it.…
- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein