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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
«The gospel to me is simply irresistible.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
gospel, Gospels, irresistible
«We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
deliver, implore, imploring, mercy, vices
«Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.»
«Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
clarity, damage, damages, intellect, profit
«To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.»
«We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
drifting, end to end, sphere, uncertainty
«Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Appreciation,
Reason
| Keywords:
infinite number, recognition
«The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
accused, accuses, accusing, approved, approving, as well, either, established, fang, fangs, fixes, fixing, fix it, fix up, folly, gets, highest, high and low, lowest, majorities, majority, order, Order of, The Accused, thoroughly
«Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
approach, despair, humble, humbles, humbling, Jesus, pride, Pride and, The God
«If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
be full, deliverance, lust
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