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.
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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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We like to be deceived.
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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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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Imagination decides everything.
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