And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit
More Quotes from Blaise Pascal:
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.Blaise Pascal
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
Blaise Pascal
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.
Blaise Pascal
Let us wager the gain and the loss is wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Blaise Pascal
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Mind Quotes, Thought & Thinking QuotesBased on Keywords: cubit
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
Robert Cecil
In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.
Louise Woodward
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Anne Lamott