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Passion Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- 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 two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through…
- However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
- When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was…
- 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…
- Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes…
- Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one…
- Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
- Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
- Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
- Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
- When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although…
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams