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• Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

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  Misery, Distraction, Console

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Letters

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• Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

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  Anxiety, Darkness, Purpose

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• It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

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  Song, Writing, Impact

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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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  Real, Eye, People

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• Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

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  Jesus, Pride, Knowing

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

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  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

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  Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

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  Jesus, Enemy, Islam

  Blaise Pascal, Isaac Taylor (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.202

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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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  Doe, God Exists, Ifs

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• Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

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  Humble, Humility, Thinking

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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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  Men, Should, Hesitation

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

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  Christian, Jesus, Life And Death

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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  Wisdom, Addiction, Limits

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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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  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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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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  Love, Native American, Religion

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• All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

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  Happiness, War, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.114, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

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  Mean, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

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  Names, Littles, Helping

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• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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  Kindness, Character, Accomplish Nothing

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• Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

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  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

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  Men, Inability, Trouble

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• When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

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  Math, Intuition, Logic

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• All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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  Letting Go, Being Alone, Feelings

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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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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  God, Heart, Existentialism

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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  Faith, Wise, Gains

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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