Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.
Blaise PascalTags: humanity people mankind sensitivity humankind insensitivity
As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting, and teaches me as much as my forgotten thought, for I care only about knowing that I am nothing.
Blaise PascalNature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another. This makes something in a way infinite and eternal. It is not that any of this is really infinite and eternal, but these finite entities multiply infinitely. Thus only number, which multiplies them, seems to me to be infinite.
Blaise PascalThe eternal being exists for ever if he once exists.
Blaise PascalThe true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.
Blaise PascalImagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
Blaise PascalEach man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
Blaise PascalTags: nature death mortality selfishness self-centeredness
Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.
Blaise Pascal'Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, and walk therein.'
Blaise PascalYou would not seek me if you did not possess me.
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