All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALIt 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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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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