Top 100 Blaise's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
#3. The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
Blaise Pascal
#4. Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Blaise Pascal
#5. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
Blaise Pascal
#6. Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Blaise Pascal
#7. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#8. One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
Blaise Pascal
#9. 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
#10. Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
#11. The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.
Blaise Pascal
#12. If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.
Blaise Cendrars
#13. It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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#14. All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
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#15. The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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#16. All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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#17. All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
Blaise Pascal
#18. I want to encourage you to reject any form of pump-you-up sermons that are only a veiled way of telling you to die again the death that Jesus died for you. Don't spend time killing off the life Jesus gave you. There's a word for that - Gnosticism
Blaise Foret
#19. All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#20. What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Blaise Pascal
#21. Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Blaise Pascal
#22. It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
Blaise Pascal
#23. If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
Blaise Pascal
#24. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#25. All of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#26. The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room
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#27. Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
Blaise Pascal
#28. It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Blaise Pascal
#29. 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
#30. Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise Pascal
#31. However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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#32. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
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#33. One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
Blaise Cendrars
#34. 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
#35. Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true good.
Blaise Pascal
#36. Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.
Blaise Pascal
#37. All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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#38. They would do better to say: "Our book," "Our commentary," "Our history," etc., because there is in them usually more of other people's than their own.
Blaise Pascal
#39. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#40. The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
Blaise Pascal
#41. Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things
beyond it.
Blaise Pascal
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Blaise Pascal
#45. The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
Blaise Pascal
#46. Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.
Blaise Pascal
#47. All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Blaise Pascal
#48. Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
#49. 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
#50. Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched, but there is greatness in knowing one is wretched.
Blaise Pascal
#51. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.
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#52. The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
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#53. We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces ...
Blaise Pascal
#54. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#55. 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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#56. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
#57. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#58. In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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#59. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
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#60. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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#61. The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play
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#62. 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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#63. Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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#64. But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.
Blaise Cendrars
#65. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#66. 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!
Blaise Pascal
#67. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
Blaise Pascal
#68. 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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#69. Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Blaise Pascal
#73. 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
#74. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#75. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#76. All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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#77. [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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#79. Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.
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#80. Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
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#81. Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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#82. The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements ... But a God of love and consolation.
Blaise Pascal
#83. [With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.
Blaise Aguera Y Arcas
#84. Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Blaise Pascal
#85. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#86. Man's greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.
Blaise Pascal
#87. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#88. 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
#89. The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
#90. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#91. Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
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#93. 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?
Blaise Pascal
#94. 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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#95. I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
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#96. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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#97. The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.
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#98. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
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#99. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#100. 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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