Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALWe like to be deceived.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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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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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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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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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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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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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 beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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