How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
BLAISE PASCALHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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 never love a person, but only qualities.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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