Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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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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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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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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