Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
BLAISE PASCALPeople almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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