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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
«What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
chimera, chimeras, contradiction, depository, earthworm, earthworms, feeble, monster, novelties, novelty, prodigies, prodigy, sink, uncertainty
«The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
causes, christ, constitutes, constituting, despair, Jesus, Jesus Christ, middle, misery, pride, The Knowledge
«Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
and elsewhere, elsewhere, regard, Rest of the world, selfishness
«The only shame is to have none»
«Continued eloquence is wearisome»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
continued, eloquence, wearisome
«We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
conceal, in vain, matters, possibly, removed, secretly, seemingly, vain
«Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Charity,
Christianity,
God,
Kindness,
Religion
| Keywords:
bids, counterpoise, horribly, humiliation, recognise, terribly, vile
«To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules
«Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
axiom, axioms, definitions, exact, explained, inaccurate, insufferable
«Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.»
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