To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal
Tag: Quote of the Day
15APR2025 – Quote of the Day
It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
Blaise Pascal
14APR2025 – Quote of the Day
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Blaise Pascal
13APR2025 – Quote of the Day
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the small space which I fill, or even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified, and wonder that I am here rather than there, for there is no reason why here rather than there, or now rather than then. Who has set me here? By whose order and design have this place and time been destined for me?—
Blaise Pascal
12APR2025 – Quote of the Day
It is not well to be too much at liberty. It is not well to have all we want.
Blaise Pascal
11APR2025 – Quote of the Day
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England, as he had heard an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer call it some time ago. Ireland was not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Charles Stewart Parnell
10APR2025 – Quote of the Day
You gentlemen of England
Who live at home at ease
How little do you think
On the dangers of the seas
Martin Parker
09APR2025 – Quote of the Day
Life’s race well run,
Life’s work well done,
Life’s victory won,
Now cometh rest.
Edward Hazen Parker
08APR2025 – Quote of the Day
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
Thomas Paine
07APR2025 – Quote of the Day
The time has found us.
Thomas Paine