If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
BLAISE PASCALWe are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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We like to be deceived.
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