Blaise Pascal Quotes

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

Blaise Pascal

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• Leaves
• Infinity

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• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Face
  • Act
  • Infinity

• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Human
  • Audience
  • Landscape

• I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Ideas
  • Spirit
  • Landscape

• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Learned
  • Landscape
  • Workers

• An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Impression
  • Snake
  • Leaves

• Plato... introduces two infinities, because both in increase and diminution there appears to be transcendency, and a progression to infinity. Though... he did not use them: for neither is there infinity in numbers by diminution or division; since unity is a minimum: nor by increase; for he extends number as far as to the decad.

  

  Aristotle
  • Plato
  • Progression
  • Infinity

• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Words
  • Design
  • More

• You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Home
  • Trees
  • Leaves

• There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Limits
  • Infinity
  • Goes On

• For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Bad
  • Poetry
  • Leaves

• Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Leaves
  • Thumbprints

• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  

  Elizabeth Barton
  • Light
  • Space
  • Balance

• On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Political
  • Peace
  • Understanding

• Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Special

• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Ideas
  • Movement
  • Infinity

• There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Words
  • Comfort
  • Falling

• A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Design
  • Garden
  • Scene

• I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

  

  Epictetus
  • Opportunity
  • Resources
  • Difficulty

• I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Enjoy
  • Independent
  • Sucker

• I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Easy

• A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Landscape
  • Leaves
  • Infinity