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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 least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le moindre mouvement importe à toute la nature, la mer entière change pour une pierre.

German
Die kleinste Bewegung ist für die ganze Natur von Bedeutung; das ganze Meer verändert sich, wenn ein Stein hineingeworfen wird.




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Quotes for: nature


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Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





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





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.











Quotes for: change


Quotes

Quotes about change:


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





Change alone is the constant.





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





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.





To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.











Quotes

Quotes for: movement


Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?





Never confuse movement with action.





Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.





Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.





Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.





Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.











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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