The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
BLAISE PASCALThe supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond 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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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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