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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
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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God Happiness Ourselves
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Love Reason Understand
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
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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Lying Men Thinking
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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Attraction Belief People

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