Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
BLAISE PASCALWe like to be deceived.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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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 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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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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