Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALIf 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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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 should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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