Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALWhat a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Imagination decides everything.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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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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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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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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We like to be deceived.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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