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Blaise Pascal Quotes
«People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mind,
People,
Reason
| Keywords:
come in, discovered, generally, persuaded, persuades, reasons
«The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Beauty,
Work
| Keywords:
composes, composing, discovers, put to work, The Last, Thing one
«Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
beings, Divine, human beings, known
«It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.»
«One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
rule, rule of, serve, serves
«That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
evident, Miracles, prove, require
«Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
concealed, deeds, esteemed, noble
«There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
finding, foolish, have-not, rational, second, seek, seeking, serve, The Second, The Third, third, typed, types, type A, typing, unhappy
«Little things console us because little things afflict us»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
afflict, afflicting, console, consoled, consoles, consoling
«People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Discovery,
People
| Keywords:
convinced, discovered, reasons
