#iv

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#art #chance #gives #keep #removes

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#behind #each #few #friend #friendships

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#god #heart #perceived #perceives #reason

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comprehend #encompasses #i #like #me

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#driven #end #ever #sail #sphere

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#diversion #happy #make #order #our

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#becomes #before #divine #finite #god

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#buy #cheap #days #dear #how

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#better #brick #creation #each #edifice