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Thinking Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand…
- Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
- One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences…
- All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
- [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of…
- The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
- Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
- The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
- We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall…
- Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
- There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
- Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
- Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
- As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to…
- There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they…
- Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the…
- Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take…
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
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