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.
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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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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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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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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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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 more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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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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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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We like to be deceived.
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