We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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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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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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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