Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCALMan is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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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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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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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in 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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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 like to be deceived.
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