It does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary. Author: C.S. Lewis |
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Author: Blaise Pascal |
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! Author: Blaise Pascal |
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Author: Blaise Pascal |
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Author: Blaise Pascal |
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Author: Blaise Pascal |
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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. Author: Blaise Pascal |
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Author: Blaise Pascal |
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. Author: Blaise Pascal |
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new. Author: Blaise Pascal |
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |