Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Quote by Blaise Pascal
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
- Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
- Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
- We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
- Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
- In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
- Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
- If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
- We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Best Quotes
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
- It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Our past, is the only picture that can reflect light upon the path of our future.
- I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
- When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
- Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.