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Loci: ConvergenceMathematical QuotationsOur library of quotations is organized alphabetically by surname of the author. Page: 1 of 9 | Next Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)There are two types of mind ... the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)The more I see of men, the better I like my dog. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me. I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long .... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. Page: 1 of 9 | Next |
