"All is one, all is different. How..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
More by Blaise Pascal
“We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.”
“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
“The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.”
More on Human Nature
“Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.”
“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”
“those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.”
More on Unity
“Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.”
“Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”
“Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.”