Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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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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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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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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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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Imagination decides everything.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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