Blaise Pascal
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
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"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
"حساسية الرجال تجاه الصغائر، ولامبالاتهم بالكبائر، تشير إلى انقلاب غريب."
Blaise Pascal
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
"العدل والحقّ من الدقائق الخفيّة التي تعجز أدواتنا الغليظة عن بلوغها بدقّة."
Blaise Pascal
"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
"الإيمان رهان حكيم. فإذا سلّمنا بأن الإيمان لا يمكن إثباته، فأي ضرر يلحقك إن راهنت على صدقه ثم تبيّن زيفه؟ إن ربحت، ربحت كل شيء؛ وإن خسرت، لم تخسر شيئًا. راهن إذن، بلا تردد، على وجوده."
Blaise Pascal
"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
"طبيعة الإنسان يحكمها أمران: الغريزة والتجربة."
Blaise Pascal
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
"إن القلب هو الذي يدرك الله، لا العقل. هذا هو الإيمان: إدراك الله بالقلب، لا بالعقل."
Blaise Pascal
"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
"تتلاشى المحدودية في حضرة اللانهاية، وتغدو عدماً محضاً. وهكذا روحنا أمام الله، وهكذا عدلنا أمام العدل الإلهي."
Blaise Pascal
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
"إنما العقلاء صنفان: من يخدم الله بكل قلبه لأنه يعرفه، ومن يطلبه بكل قلبه لأنه لا يعرفه."
Blaise Pascal
"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."
"تُنشئ الصدفة الأفكار وتُزيلها؛ ولا فنٌّ يستطيع حفظها أو اكتسابها."
Blaise Pascal
"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
"إن عظمة الإنسان تكمن في قوة فكره."
Blaise Pascal
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
"يجب أن يُقرَن العدل بالقوة، ليكون كل ما هو عادل قويًا، وكل ما هو قوي عادلًا."
Blaise Pascal
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
"ليس من الخير الإفراط في الحرية، ولا أن ينال المرء كل ما يشتهي."
Blaise Pascal
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"إن كان لا ينبغي لنا أن نفعل شيئًا إلا بي"
Blaise Pascal
"Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
"الإنسان يُعرَف ليُحَب، أما الإله فيُحَب ليُعرَف."
Blaise Pascal
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
"للقلب أسبابه التي لا يعرفها العقل."
Blaise Pascal
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
Blaise Pascal
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
Blaise Pascal
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
Blaise Pascal
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
Blaise Pascal
"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves."
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