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.
BLAISE PASCALWe 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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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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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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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 the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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