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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
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
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
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Exception Happiness Search
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
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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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction
Imagination decides everything.
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Imagination Inspirational One Liner
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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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
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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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
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

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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