We like to be deceived.
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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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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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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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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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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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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.
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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