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Pensées by Blaise Pascal. 13,535 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 686 reviews. Pensées Quotes Showing 1-30 of 432. “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”. ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées. tags: ironic , sad. 2091 likes.
- Man is Only a Reed, The Weakest in Nature, But
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a...
- Blaise Pascal Quotes (Author of Pensées)
Showing 1-30 of 764. “The heart has its reasons which reason...
- Man is Only a Reed, The Weakest in Nature, But
- If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
- No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth. Blaise Pascal.
- There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
- Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. Blaise Pascal. Death, Suicide, Years.
Quotes from Pensées. “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”. “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”. “To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”. “Curiosity is only vanity.
- Section I: Thoughts on Mind and Style
- Section II: The Misery of Man Without God
- Section III: on The Necessity of The Wager
- Section IV: on The Means of The Belief
- Section V: Justice and The Reason of Effects
- Section VI: The Philosophers
- Section VII: Morality and Doctrine
- Section VIII: The Fundamentals of The Christian Religion
- Section IX: Perpetuity
- Section X: Typology
...it is rare that mathematicians are intuitive, and that men of intuition are mathematicians, because mathematicians wish to treat matters of intuition mathematically, and make themselves ridiculo...
I might well have taken this discourse in an order like this: to show the vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary lives, and then the vanity of philosophic lives, sceptics,...
Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
Why are you killing me for your own benefit? I am unarmed.' 'Why, do you not live on the other side of the water? My friend, if you lived on this side, I should be a murderer, but since you live on...
I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal.The arithmetical machine produces effects which approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing which would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.Instinct and reason, marks of two natures.Reason commands us far more than imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.Thought constitutes the greatness of man.L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature; mais c'est un roseau pensant. Il ne faut pas que l’univers entier s’arme pour l’écraser : une vapeur, une goutte d’eau suffit pour le tuer....All these examples of wretchedness prove his greatness. It is the wretchedness of a great lord, the wretchedness of a dispossessed king.
...religion must so be the object and center to which all things tend, that whoever knows the principles of religion can give an explanation both of the whole nature of man in particular, and of th...
Rivers are highways that move on, and bear us whither we wish to go.Différence entre J.-C. et Mahomet. Mahomet non prédit, J.-C. prédit. Mahomet en tuant, J.-C. en faisant tuer les siens. Mahomet en défendant de lire, les apôtres en ordonnant de lire. Enfin cela es...Surge. God, wishing to show that He could form a people holy with an invisible holiness, and fill them with an eternal glory, made visible things. As nature is an image of grace, He has done in the...
Important Quotes. “Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”. (Page 4) The Pensées were planned as an apology or defense of Christianity. Blaise Pascal aimed to convince worldly-minded people and skeptics of the truth of religion by presenting it as the best answer to life’s questions.
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