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Us Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable…
- All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
- We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
- Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
- We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are…
- All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
- Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose…
- 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…
- When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that…
- Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
- Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
- We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
- Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with…
- The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves;…
- The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to…
- Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to…
- Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
- We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we…
- Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
- It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
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