Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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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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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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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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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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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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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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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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We like to be deceived.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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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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