Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALThe 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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