There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
BLAISE PASCALIf a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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 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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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We like to be deceived.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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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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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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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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