Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
BLAISE PASCALWe like to be deceived.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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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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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Imagination decides everything.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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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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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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