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Biography - Blaise Pascal:

French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.
Blaise Pascal - Letters to Mr and Mlle de Rouannez


Note 

Note




Source: Letters to Mr and Mlle de Rouannez

Wikisource - Œuvres de Blaise Pascal (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le monde est si inquiet, qu'on ne pense presque jamais à la vie présente et à l'instant où l'on vit; mais à celui où l'on vivra. De sorte qu'on est toujours en état de vivre à l'avenir, et jamais de vivre maintenant.
Blaise Pascal - Lettres à Mr et à Mlle de Rouannez

German
Die Welt ist so unruhig, dass man fast nie an das gegenwärtige Leben denkt, an den Augenblick, wo man wirklich lebt, sondern an den, wo man erst zu leben gedenkt. So findet man sich immer in dem Stande, dass man erst leben will, und nicht, dass man jetzt wirklich lebt.
Blaise Pascal - Briefe an Herrn und Frau de Rouannez



See also 

See also...



You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.
Alan Watts

Never is done tomorrow what is not done today
And one should let no day slip by.
With resolution seize the possible straightway
By forelock and with quick, courageous trust;
Then holding fast you will not let it further fly
And you will labour on because you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan Watts

While we wait for life, life passes.
Seneca



Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





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.
Alan Watts / 





My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen / 






All to live quotes...




Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence / 





The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Albert Einstein / 





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy / 





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice / 






All about the world...




Quotes for: now


Quotes

Quotes about now:


Seize the day.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes / 





Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts / 





Now or never.
 / 





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
Hannah Arendt / 





Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow:
Gather today the roses of life.
Pierre de Ronsard - Sonnets pour Hélène / 






All about now...




Quotes

Blaise Pascal also said...


All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





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.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 







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