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World Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
- The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
- 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…
- To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so…
- It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I…
- All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
- Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth…
- Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
- All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
- There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
- Opinion is the queen of the world.
- I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give…
- That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told…
- Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
- I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
- Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when…
- Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose…
- If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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