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"Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
"An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball."
"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."
"It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a "Christian" but the truth is we respond from very different world-views."
"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."
"Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight."
"It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?"
"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
"I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It's the least you can do, really, as a polite guest."
Explore more quotes by Blaise Pascal
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
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