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What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything


Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever ex...
BUDDHA The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.
BRUCE DOUGLAS The number three seems to have a particular significance, relevant in some strange ways to the relat...
ERNO RUBIK Expectations are something which is very strange. The more you expect out of your life or from other...
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ROBERT ROBINSON The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
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SHARON SALZBERG We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
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STEVE VERNON The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha...
SIGMUND FREUD Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
THOMAS CARLYLE Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
D. H. LAWRENCE The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment
D.H. LAWRENCE There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nat...
BLAISE PASCAL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence m...
LOUIS K. ANSPACHER It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single at...
GERARD DE NERVAL What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and...
SAI BABA All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. ...
OVID Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it i...
JOHN LARDNER Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.
STEPHEN KING The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in r...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i...
ROMAN JAKOBSON I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES The only difference between a man and god is that man knows nothing but pretends as if he knows ever...
ANURAAG Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.

In nature nothing i...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a...
JOHN BURROUGHS Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either yo...
GIAN MARIA VOLONTE In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everyth...
TIM O'BRIEN I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
TOM ROBBINS Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. LAWRENCE Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and ...
LESLIE W.P. GARLAND Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that f...
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LEO TOLSTOY Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that w...
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...
W.H. AUDEN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one anothe...
FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that h...
SUZY KASSEM Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in advers...
PLUTARCH In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
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DR MIIA KIVIPELTO Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Nothing is impossible. Everything is possible. It's all in the attitude.
RICHARD VERRY Anyone who considers himself in this way will be seized with terror and, discovering that the mass n...
BLAISE PASCAL It may mean everything... It may mean something... or it may mean nothing at all.
C LIONG The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between co...
PAUL RICOEUR Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which i...
NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is advers...
PLUTARCH Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers...
PLUTARCH 4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that woul...
FRANZ KAFKA In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing fo...
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a ...
KEN KESEY Nature does nothing in vain.
ARISTOTLE Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. Y...
SARAH MANGUSO The man who believed he knew everything went on to know nothing. The man who knew that he knew nothi...
JASON JINIL LEE, JR. A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if...
SEI SHōNAGON According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
ROY BLOUNT, JR. Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation betwe...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in noth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Each planet has its own sun. … [I]t really is another sun on Uranus … The relation of the Sun to...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
TERENCE Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a part...
BARUCH SPINOZA There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitionary world. It's t...
TAHEREH MAFI With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for l...
DANIEL KLEIN He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
JOHN LYLY Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe.
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JOHN GREEN I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to...
HAZEL B. WEST What I love is how seamless everything is. You walk throw a forest and come out in a village; and th...
JAMIE ZEPPA Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Tru...
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NOEL GALLAGHER We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human...
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DAVID BOWIE The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching
GILBERT HIGHET I wanna talk to the black men in here, you know what I mean? Black men in here that are coming up in...
OBIE TRICE Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
ALEXANDER SMITH There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten...
WILLIAM BARRETT In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them impro...
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BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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