Logo
Quote by Blaise Pascal
It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant

It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. – Blaise Pascal

Other quotes by Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Time
Author
Blaise Pascal
Read Quote

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Obedience
Author
Blaise Pascal
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Ritual, Ceremony
category

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. – Amy Vanderbilt

Category:
Ritual, Ceremony

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

Category:
Ritual, Ceremony

Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Ritual, Ceremony

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

Category:
Ritual, Ceremony

Random Quotes

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. – Author Unknown

Category:

So I decided on science when I was in college. – Sally Ride

Category:
Science

If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing. – Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg

Category:
Pregnancy

So if I design it and then go away, its still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me. – Marc Newson

Category:
design