French - Philosopher | June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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