Blaise Pascal Quotes

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

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• A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Christian

• I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Adversity

• The maxims of men reveal their characters.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Men

• Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)

  

  Dave Sim
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Most conscious thought is simply an attempt to claim ‘authorship’ for a choice that has already been made. Our thoughts are just an ongoing attempt to explain what we’ve already decided.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Thoughts

• I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time.

  

  Jon Watts
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We were obviously concerned after the game, but he has very little swelling, and our guys feel encouraged.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Feels
  • Encouragement

• The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • World
  • Black

• Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Home
  • Financial

• We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Fear

• I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Understanding
  • Person

• How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Intelligence
  • German
  • Heaviness

• Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

  

  William James
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Particular

• Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

  

  William Hurt
  • Successful
  • Boyfriend

• I love acting. Modeling is fun, too, but I feel like there is more room to stretch yourself and open yourself up to new experiences with acting. That's why I got into acting in the first place.

  

  Arden Cho
  • Experience
  • Acting
  • Open

• The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Impression

• That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Music
  • Memories
  • Pleasure

• It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • Values
  • Stand
  • Democrats

• Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Acknowledge
  • Many Things
  • Last Step