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.
BLAISE PASCALNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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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 a God-shaped vacuum in every 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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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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