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 PASCALAll of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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 supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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We like to be deceived.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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