There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
BLAISE PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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We 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.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Imagination decides everything.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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We like to be deceived.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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