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«Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
discover, method, slow, torturous, Truth by Reason
«Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
contradiction, falsities, falsity, lack, sign
«Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
search, sincere, sincerer, sincerest
«Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself»
«Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Greatness,
Power,
Thinking,
Thought
«The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
affected, movement, ocean, pebble, pebbled
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
All That, know-all, known, ought
«Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
arranged, arranges, differently, effect, effected, effecting, meaning, meanings, to that effect
«We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
alike, not only, sides, view
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