All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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