> Pascal’s notion was quite memorable... it was discussed in a French book about language. That work was translated and published in London in 1676 as “The Art of Speaking”
> The first known instance in the English language was a sentence translated from a text written by the French mathematician and philosopher #BlaisePascal. The French statement appeared in a letter in a collection called “ #LettresProvinciales” in the year 1657:
> I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. #MoreTimeShorterPapers #LessBullshit 🧵

One’s legacy

Therefore when we build let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such Work as our descendants will thank us for and let us think as we lay Stone on Stone that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them and that men will say as they look upon the labor and the wrought substance of them, ‘See this our fathers did for us.’

~ John Ruskin

slip:4a115.

That’s sure has a nice ring to it. We need more people with a rock-solid work ethic, who are self-starters, able to be detail oriented, capable of anticipating problems and acting in advance, and who can think things through. These are things worth striving for.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

~ Blaise Pascal

slip:4a517.

The time-sink of video games, the distraction of mindless television, the constant interaction with others (twitter, text messages, etc) without real communication, the seeking of incessant stimulation without actually feeling anything, the inundation with information with no chance for finding knowledge; These things we can do without.

ɕ

#BlaisePascal #JohnRuskin #Wisdom
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

Habitual acts

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions but by his habitual acts.

~ Blaise Pascal

slip:4a269.

#BlaisePascal #ManhoodAndHonor #Quotes
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

Emptiness

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

~ Blaise Pascal

slip:4a1007.

#BlaisePascal #Quotes #SelfAwareness #Virtue
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

Truth

Look for the truth; it wants to be found.

~ Blaise Pascal

slip:4a1025.

#7ForSunday #BlaisePascal #Quotes
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

An imaginary life

We are not satisfied with our real life. We want to live an imaginary life, a life in which we seem different in the eyes of other people than we are in reality.

~ Blaise Pascal

slip:4a1044.

#7ForSunday #BlaisePascal #Quotes #Wisdom
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

— Blaise Pascal

#Stoic #Stoicism #BlaisePascal

Die Logik des Herzens bei Pascal - TheoBlog.de

Christian Link schreibt über den apologetischen Ansatz von Pascal („Pascal und die Krise der neuzeitlichen Metaphysik“, Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche

TheoBlog.de
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ #BlaisePascal #quotes #humanity #religion #evil #war #inhumanity