Blaise Pascal Quotes on World (15 Quotes)


    Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

    Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

    Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

    Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

    The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.


    I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

    I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.

    All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

    Force and not opinion is the queen of the world But it is opinion that uses force.

    If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter the whole history of the world would have been different.

    We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

    Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

    Force rules the world, and not opinion but opinion is that which makes use of force

    There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life

    It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom by thought I comprehend the world.


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