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From Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
- When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered…
- Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our…
- The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
- Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes…
- All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
- L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.
- All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
- All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
- Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
- We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
- We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
- If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
- There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they…
- We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to…
- All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when…
- Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose…
- We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not…
- We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
- The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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