Quote of Blaise Pascal - All our dignity consists, then, in...
Biography - Blaise Pascal:
French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
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(French, German)
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Quotes for: to think
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Quotes for: morality
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Quotes about space:
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.
Quotes for: Dignity
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