Pascal Quotes
38 quotes by 32 authors
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Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to…
— Lytton Strachey
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages…
— Luc de Clapiers
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A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else.…
— Raymond Simard
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Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.
— Paul Popenoe
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
— Susan Sontag
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You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker…
— Bono
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So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak…
— Richard Dawkins
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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition…
— Machado de Assis
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise…
— Blaise Pascal
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Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said…
— Megan Hart
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I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything…
— Emmanuel Levinas
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Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
— Buzz Aldrin
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the stratosphere…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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