There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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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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We like to be deceived.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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