It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
BLAISE PASCALPeople almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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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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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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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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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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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