Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise PascalCi Puo' essere quakcosa di piu' stupido del fatto che un uomo abbia il diritto di uccidermi perche' vive sull'altra sponda di un fiume e il suo sovrano ha avuto una lite con il mio, anche se io non ho litigato con lui?
Blaise PascalWhen I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it—memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis (remembrance of a guest who tarried but a day)—the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? By whose command and act were this place and time allotted to me?
Blaise PascalСърцето има доводи, които разумът не познава
Blaise PascalIt would therefore be a good thing for us to obey laws and customs because they are laws: to know that there is no right and just law to be brought in, that we know nothing about it and should consequently only follow those already accepted. In this way we should never give them up. But the people are not amenable to this doctrine, and thus, believing that truth can be found and resides in laws and customs, they believe them and take their antiquity as a proof of their truth (and not just of their authority, without truth). Thus they obey them but are liable to revolt as soon as they are shown to be worth nothing, which can happen with all laws if they are looked at from a certain point of view.
Blaise PascalHe that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
Blaise PascalTags: truth god duty providence
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise PascalGod instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.
Blaise PascalTags: prayer
Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise PascalTags: knowledge
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
Blaise PascalTags: epictetus montaigne michel-de-montaigne salomon-de-tultie
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