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Letter "B" » Blaise Pascal Quotes
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«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Life
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astonished, Before and After, duration, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, frightened, immensity, swallowed
«Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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amuse, amuses, ball, billiard, billiards, frivolous, hitting, hit man, playing, reasons, such as, sufficient, thus, weariness, weary, wretched
«We never, then, love a person, but only qualities»
«The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Originality
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originality
«There are two types of minds - the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the dive»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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applies, arrives, dive, endowed, flexibility, intuitive, rigid, simultaneously
«The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
act as, confusion, multitude, origin, unity
«Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
commanding, established religion, followers, lay down, Mahomet
«Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Vanity
| Keywords:
admired, secure, vanity
«Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
chastely, chastity, humbly, humility, skeptically, skepticism
«Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.»
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