One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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We like to be deceived.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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 the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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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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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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