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Things Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- 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…
- Things are always at their best in their beginning.
- 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…
- 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…
- Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself…
- Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from…
- Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from…
- Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they…
- Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
- Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
- Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
- Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
- Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
- How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
- How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
- The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
- Little things console us because little things afflict us.
- Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
- We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
- In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
- The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to…
- If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things…
- Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
- The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
- Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle