Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Quote by Blaise Pascal
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
- He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
- Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
- Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
- It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
- As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
- There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
- Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
- He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Best Quotes
- I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
- I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
- I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
- The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
- Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
- The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- For visions come not to polluted eyes.