Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalRead
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True passion is marked by an intense degree, whether in love or other endeavors.
This quote by Blaise Pascal suggests that authentic passion must be experienced at a heightened level; it cannot simply be moderate. To truly love or pour oneself into something, one must embrace either the depth of excessive love or the painful absence of it, highlighting that passion operates in extremes and that real beauty in life comes from these powerful emotions.
Themes
PassionLoveExcessEmotionIntensity
In practice
Example use cases
In a romantic setting to express the depth of feelings for a partner.
More from Blaise Pascal
All quotes βIf we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Blaise PascalRead
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Blaise PascalRead
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise PascalRead
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
Blaise PascalRead
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
Blaise PascalRead
Similar quotes
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
Albert CamusRead
The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
John GreenRead
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
AdeleRead
One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?
Ezra Taft BensonRead
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James JoyceRead
Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance_x000D_ _x000D_ With the stars up above in your eyes..._x000D_ _x000D_ And I'm trying to please to the calling_x000D_ _x000D_ Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low_x000D_ _x000D_ And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush_x000D_ _x000D_ And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush..._x000D_ _x000D_ One more Moondance with you in the moonlight_x000D_ _x000D_ On a magic night
Van MorrisonRead