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Man Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man…
- For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and…
- Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
- Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels…
- The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to…
- I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
- It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time…
- If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by…
- All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
- However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
- Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I…
- Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
- To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.
- 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…
- Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all…
- 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,…
- The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
- No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can…
- If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
- The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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