24 ideas
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
10121 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal] |
8228 | Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
8232 | Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
8234 | Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)] |
20723 | Only when working people are poor do they remain obedient to God [Calvin, by Weber] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |
8227 | Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)] |
8229 | The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)] |
8231 | Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)] |
8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |