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Blaise Pascal Quotes
«Nature diversifies and imitates; art imitates and diversifies.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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diversified, diversifies, diversify, imitates
«Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
sole, voyage
«Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
companion
«People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
act as, mission, The Wish, Truth The, victorious
«Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Imagination
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disposes
«For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?»
«Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.»
«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.»
«Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
atom, comprehend, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, swallows