"Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.
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More by Blaise Pascal
“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”
“L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.”
“We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.”
More on Human Nature
“We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.”
“What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?”
“Society does not love its unmaskers.”
More on Will
“When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will”
“What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?”
“My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?”