Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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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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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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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 never love a person, but only qualities.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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