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Blaise Pascal Love Quotes and Sayings
#1 Christian Reflections, Thoughts on religion and other important subjects, Translation: Thomas Chevalier, 1806 [S]
1. The heart has its arguments with which reason is not acquainted. It is the heart which feels God, and not reason.
#2-3 The Art of Persuasion, Translation: O. W. Wright [S]
2. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
3. …as soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.
#4-6 Discourse on the Passion of Love, Translation: O W WIGHT [S]
4. When we love, we appear to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
5. In love we dare not hazard, because we fear to lose every thing; it is necessary, however, to advance, but who can say how far? We tremble constantly until we have found this point. Prudence does nothing towards maintaining it when it is found.
6. When we love ardently, it is always a novelty to see the person beloved. After a moment’s absence, he finds a void in his heart. What happiness is it to find her again! he feels at once a cessation of anxiety.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Blaise Pascal (French pronunciation: [blɛz paskal]), (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France – August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal’s earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
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Sayings by Blaise Pascal
#1-2 Pascal’s Pensées; or, Thoughts on religion [S]
1. I have discovered that all human misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to remain quietly in one room.
2. Time heals griefs and quarrels, because we change; we are no longer the same persons. Neither offender nor offended are any more themselves.
#3 Thoughts of Blaise Pascal, Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1846 [S]
3. Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
#4 Detached Moral Thoughts, Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects by Blaise Pascal. A New Translation, and a Memoir of His Life, by E. Craig, 1825
4. Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
#5 Thoughts of Blaise Pascal, Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1846 [S]
5. What a vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, that in the original, we do not admire!
#6-7 Thoughts of Blaise Pascal, Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1846 [S]
6. Man is neither an angel nor a brute; and the mischief is, they who would play the angel, often play the brute.
7. In general we are more forcibly persuaded by the reasons which we ourselves search out, than by those which are suggestions of the minds of others.
#8-9 Thoughts on Religion, Translation & Edition: Rawlings, Gertrude Burford, 1900 [S]
8. What surprises me most is that men are not astounded at their weakness.
9. We never rest in the present. We anticipate the future as though it were too slow, and as if to hasten it; or we recall the past, to delay it, as though it were too fleeting: so imprudent are we, that we dally in times which are not our own, thinking not of the only time which belongs to us; and so vain, that we dream of those that are no more, and let the only one which is, escape without a thought.
#10 The Art of Persuasion, Translation: O. W. Wright [S]
10. …the art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!
#11 Vanity of Man, Thoughts on religion and other important subjects, Translation: Thomas Chevalier, 1806 [S]
11. Curiosity is nothing but vanity. For the most part, we desire to know things merely that we may talk of them. A man would not undertake a voyage by sea, for the bare pleasure of gratifying his sight, if he was never to speak of it, and had no hope of conversing about it afterward.
#12-13 Thoughts on religion and other important subjects, Translation: Thomas Chevalier, 1806 [S]
12. A man’s virtue is not to be measured by his great attempts, but by his common actions.
13. Many things which are true, are contradicted; and many which are false, pass without contradiction. Contradiction is therefore no mark of falsehood, nor is the absence of it a mark of truth.
#14 Pascal’s Pensées; or, Thoughts on religion, Rawlings, Gertrude Burford, 1900 [S]
14. I aver that if everybody knew what everybody else said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Unsourced Blaise Pascal Quotes
1. Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
2. Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.