Blaise Quotes

#1. Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

Megan Hart

#2. Blaise's creation, however, was not a myth. She - it - was an artificially created monster with potentially unlimited powers. For all they knew, it could destroy the world and every human being in it. And Blaise was attracted to it. The thought made Augusta so sick she thought she might throw up.

Dima Zales

#3. The heart," Blaise Pascal said, "has its reasons which reason knows not of.

John Eldredge

#4. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Andrea Bocelli

#5. As Blaise Pascal put it in his famous wager: "You have to wager. It is not up to you, you are already committed."7 You can't not bet your life on something. You can't not be headed somewhere. We live leaning forward, bent on arriving at the place we long for.

James K.A. Smith

#6. The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture.
'Where are we?" he asked Livia. "How can a whole other room be here? There were only two rooms on the top floor.

Teresa Flavin

#7. I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

Bharati Mukherjee

#8. When she was done, Blaise stared at her in astonishment. "Did you just read and understand that whole book?" "Yes." Unable

Dima Zales

#9. That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise)

Jennifer Crusie

#10. It's not the Mistletoe Knight that these knights are coming for. It's the girl. Lady Jaclyn." "The girl?" Blaise echoed. "She is rumored to be the fairest in the land. Most of these men have come in hopes of winning the land, not for the castle, but for the woman.

Laurel O'Donnell

#11. Leave the light and travel the shadow-lands, said Blaise, repeating the inscription on the silver box.

Teresa Flavin

#12. The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Teresa Flavin

#13. I took 2682, halved it to get 1341 and then multiplied it by 10.'
Blaise thought about it for a second and realised that her method was indeed the easiest way to solve the problem.

Dima Zales

#14. Somehow the painted door now stood open. Blaise was following Livia through it, past Throgmorton's outstretched arm. Sunni shed her slippers and hurried after them, still not quite believing they were walking through what she had thought was only paint on a wall.

Teresa Flavin

#15. Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?"
"Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#17. I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

Chris Roberson

#18. Life is all about choices, Blaise. You can choose to take the next step in a situation because it's what you think is the right thing to do. You can also choose to follow your heart. Let it lead you.

Kaylee Ryan

#19. When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

Amanda Beard

#20. All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

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#21. We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

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#22. For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

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#23. My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

Blaise Aguera Y Arcas

#24. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

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#25. We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

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#26. That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

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#27. Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

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#28. Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

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#29. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

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#30. Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

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#31. The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

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#32. But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.

Blaise Cendrars

#33. Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

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#34. The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

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#35. The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play

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#36. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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#37. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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#38. In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

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#39. This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

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#40. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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#41. Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them.

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#42. Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride.
Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

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

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#44. The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

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#45. For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

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#46. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

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#47. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

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#48. The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.

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#49. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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#50. I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

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#51. We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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#52. Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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#53. May God never abandon me.

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#54. Little things comfort us because little things distress us.

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#55. Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.

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#56. [T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.

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#57. Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress ...

Blaise Cendrars

#58. There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

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#59. The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

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#60. Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

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#61. How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

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#62. The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

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#63. No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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#64. Man's greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.

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#65. Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

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#66. There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

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#67. You always admire what you really don't understand.

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#68. If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It

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#69. - Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

James Joyce

#70. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

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#71. Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

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#72. We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.

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#73. Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

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#74. Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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#75. 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.

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#76. The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no
true demonstrations.

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#77. If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.

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#78. Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

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#79. We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

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#80. When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

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#81. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

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#82. Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

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#83. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

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#84. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

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#85. The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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#86. Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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#87. Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

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#88. There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.

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#89. It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

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#90. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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#91. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

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#92. To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

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#93. Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

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#94. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

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#95. All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.

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#96. If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

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#97. As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.

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#98. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

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#99. Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

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#100. Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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