Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
BLAISE PASCALMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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