There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
BLAISE PASCALCuriosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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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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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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