All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALOne-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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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