People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
BLAISE PASCALJustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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 men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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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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We like to be deceived.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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