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- Herausgeber: BookRix
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Sprache: Englisch
This book is a collection of 280 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Blaise Pascal: "You always admire what you really don't understand." "All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room." "Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world." "Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." "Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us." "The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason." "We understand nothing of the works of God unless we take it as a principle that He wishes to blind some and to enlighten others."
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
Blaise Pascal
His Words
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 MunichBlaise Pascal: His Words
By Daniel Coenn
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Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn
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Quotes
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
“All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.”
“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
“We understand nothing of the works of God unless we take it as a principle that He wishes to blind some and to enlighten others.”
“A God humiliated, even to the death on the cross; a Messiah triumphing over death by his own death. Two natures in Jesus Christ, two advents, two states of man's nature.”
“A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.”
“A strange justice that is bounded by a river! Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other side.”
“A type conveys absence and presence, pleasure and pain. A cipher has a double meaning, one clear, and one in which it is said that the meaning is hidden.”
“Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.”
“After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.”
“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.”
“All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.”
“All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?”
“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
“All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.”
“All the principles of skeptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.”
“All these examples of wretchedness prove his greatness. It is the wretchedness of a great lord, the wretchedness of a dispossessed king.”
“All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.”
“And Christians take even the Eucharist as a type of the glory at which they aim.”
“Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.”
“Art thou less a slave by being loved and favored by thy master? Thou art indeed well off, slave. Thy master favors thee; he will soon beat thee.”
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
“As nature is an image of grace, He has done in the bounties of nature what He would do in those of grace, in order that we might judge that He could make the invisible, since He made the visible excellently.”
“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.”
“Beauty of omission, of judgment.”
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you — will quiet your proudly critical intellect.”
