The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
BLAISE PASCALThe strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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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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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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