All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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