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.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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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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 supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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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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