If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
BLAISE PASCALDon’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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We like to be deceived.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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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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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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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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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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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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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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