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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Blaise Pascal

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
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Business Men Passion Tolerance
Imagination decides everything.
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Imagination Inspirational One Liner
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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God Men Nature Religion Worth
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Admire Conceal Deed Goodness
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
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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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Exception Happiness Search
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
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Beautiful Hurt Kindness Lips Nature
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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Crime Destroy Peace Truth
If 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.
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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Investment Soul Truth Yourself
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
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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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Heart Reason Truth
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Search Sincere Spirituality Vision
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
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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Creation God Man Spiritual
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Children One Liner Way Wisdom
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

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