Obispo Pascal Quotes

#1. By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#2. She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'
Todd did, but he let the comment slide by. #Quote by Francine Pascal

#3. Nothing human has ever mattered to this world. Nothing human has ever excited the interest of rivers or flowers. Everything fades away in the specks of this blurred haze that the fire of the sun has added to the heat of the light. #Quote by Pascal Quignard

#4. The Pascal of our generation puts it this way: "We run away like conscientious little bugs, scared rabbits, dancing attendance on our machines, our slaves, our masters" - clicking, scrolling, tapping, liking, sharing . . . anything. "We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us." In fact, "we want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it."12 #Quote by Tony Reinke

#5. Getting on an airplane and arriving a few hours later in a completely different world with no time to take in individual images of the road - he didn't like that and it bothered him. #Quote by Pascal Mercier

#6. The heart has its reasons where reason knows not. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#7. What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#8. All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#9. I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people. #Quote by Jean-Pascal Tricoire

#10. If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#11. Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#12. There are three means of believing
by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#13. It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#14. Lip was in his element. Him and his languages. His linguistic abilities didn't just stop at Pig Latin, like the rest of us. He was also pretty savvy with the computer kind. Pascal, Basic, JavaScript, those were child's play to him. He knew the completely worthless programming languages, as well. Like IronPython, IPTSCRAE, TenCore, SystemVerilog; some of the names were so ridiculous they sounded like Klingon gibberish: "Metalua, KUKA, Nemerle…" Because you never knew when you'd need to communicate with a toaster. #Quote by Dave Buschi

#15. It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits. #Quote by John Locke

#16. Extreme intelligence is accused of being as foolish as extreme lack of it; only moderation is good. The majority have laid this down and attack anyone who deviates from it towards any extreme whatever. I am not going to be awkward, I readily consent to being put in the middle and refuse to be at the bottom end, not because it is the bottom but because it is the end, for I should refuse just as much to be put at the top. It is deserting humanity to desert the middle way.
The greatness of the human soul lies in knowing how to keep this course; greatness does not mean going outside it, but rather keeping within it. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#17. We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#18. Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#19. Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#20. Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she claims she will die. #Quote by Francine Pascal

#21. Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#22. Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty, and turn his vision from the low objects which surround him. Let him gaze on that brilliant light, set like an eternal lamp to illumine the universe; let the earth appear to him a point in comparison with the vast circle described by the sun; and let him wonder at the fact that this vast circle is itself but a very fine point in comparison with that described by the stars in their revolution round the firmament. But if our view be arrested there, let our imagination pass beyond; it will sooner exhaust the power of conception than nature that of supplying material for conception. The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. In short it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God, that imagination loses itself in that thought. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#23. 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 #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#24. It is not good news, but we have to face reality. #Quote by Pascal Lamy

#25. The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly, that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent as to knowing what it is. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#26. Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#27. The self is hateful. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#28. What did I know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination? #Quote by Pascal Mercier

#29. I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career. #Quote by Amy Pascal

#30. A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible! #Quote by Francine Pascal

#31. There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader
it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people. #Quote by Pascal Mercier

#32. Wisdom is a return to childhood. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#33. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. #Quote by Pascal Mercier

#34. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#35. A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#36. Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#37. They do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#38. If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#39. I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me. #Quote by Francine Pascal

#40. Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#41. Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#42. The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously. #Quote by William Lane Craig

#43. Thought constitutes the greatness of man. Man is a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#44. Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#45. We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces ... #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#46. There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is getting Westernized all over, guilt will enter through the technology and democracy and their actions. It will come side by side so there won't be anymore innocent societies in the future I think which in fact is not such a bad thing. #Quote by Pascal Bruckner

#47. When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#48. We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search. #Quote by Blaise Pascal