Quote #19

For knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its arguments. (282)

More from Blaise Pascal

  1. For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all…
  2. Go to confession and communion; you will find it a relief and a strengthening. (82)
  3. Peu d'amities subsisteraient, si chacun savait ce que son ami dit de lui lorsqu'il n'y est pas. (100)
  4. Dieu est une sphere infinie, dont le centre est partout et la circonference nulle part. (72)
  5. Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. (299)
  6. How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement! (143)
  7. Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if…
  8. I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal. (339)

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