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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
«The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Men,
Power,
Virtue
| Keywords:
efforts, measured, ordinary, special, virtue
«Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
concerned, extraordinary, minds, ordinary
«Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
contradict, contradicted, contradicting, embraces, truths
«If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.»
«Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
ardently, clarity, distinctly
«If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
crucified, crucifying, cursed, divine grace, forfeited, forfeits, Peace of, peace of mind, philosophers, redeemed, unbelief
«Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Grief
| Keywords:
heals, persons, quarrels
«We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
conceal, contradiction, disguise, duplicity, falsehood
«There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.»
«Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
center, centers, center on, circumference, everywhere, from nowhere, infinite, nowhere, sphere
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