The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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