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Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
– Blaise Pascal

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  1. There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us. – Blaise Pascal
  2. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. – Blaise Pascal
  3. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
  4. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
  5. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
  6. Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. – Blaise Pascal
  7. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back – Blaise Pascal
  8. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  9. When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. – Blaise Pascal
  10. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. – Blaise Pascal
  11. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. – Blaise Pascal
  12. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. – Blaise Pascal
  13. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  14. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
  15. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness. – Blaise Pascal
  16. Kind words produce their images on men’s souls. – Blaise Pascal
  17. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal
  18. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
  19. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. – Blaise Pascal
  20. If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further. – Blaise Pascal
  21. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. – Blaise Pascal
  22. People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. – Blaise Pascal
  23. The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. – Blaise Pascal
  24. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  25. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  26. The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. – Dada Bhagwan
  27. The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. – T Geronimo Johnson
  28. Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I’ve determined there is a God based on His intellect. – William Branks
  29. There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end. – Ivan Doig
  30. Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro’ the rye,Gin a body kiss a body-” Need a body cry? – Robert Burns
  31. The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
  32. Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
  33. There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true Being. – Michael A Singer
  34. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. – Simon Armitage
  35. The expanse of space stretched out before them, causing Andi’s eyelids to droop against her will. Before she knew it, darkness had claimed her. – Sasha Alsberg
  36. Part of Creator occupies outer part of universe. – Toba Beta
  37. We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor’s edge. – Rick Yancey
  38. The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it. – C Robert Cargill
  39. The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other. – AW Tozer
  40. …the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. – Aleister Crowley

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