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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 eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.


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French
Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.




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The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

One thought, fills immensity.




Quotes for: eternity


Quotes

Quotes about eternity:


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.






It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.





Be humanity evermore our goal.





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.











Quotes for: silence


Quotes

Quotes about silence:


Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.





Silence is often the truest wisdom.
Pindar / 





Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.





What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.





If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.





Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.











Quotes for: fear


Quotes

Quotes about fear:


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.





Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.











Quotes for: space


Quotes

Quotes about space:


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.






There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.





Love is space and time measured by the heart.





An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.





The separation of history from geography rests upon the separation of time from space.





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: Infinity


Quotes

Quotes for: Infinity


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.






Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.





Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.





Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.





The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.





An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.











Quotes

Blaise Pascal also said...


All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.





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.












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