Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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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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