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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
«If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
condition, diversion, diversions, in order, seek
«Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
creates, disposes, dispose of, disposing, In this World, justice
«Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
achievements, brought, sum, summing, summing up, sum total, sum up, total, totals, yesterday
«I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
have-not, letter, longer, make it, shorter, short letter, The Time, usual
«All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Ability,
Mankind
| Keywords:
cause, evil, inability, room, single, sit
«Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
both, neither
«Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Kindness,
Words
| Keywords:
accomplish, cost, costing
«Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
cheerfully, completely, conviction, religious
«The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
beyond, Beyond Reason, function, show, supreme
«Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
above, Contraries, contrary, indeed, senses, tells
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