The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Heart
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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Alone
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I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)
Time I
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Never
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of
what they find attractive.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the
truth, we cannot know it.
Love
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When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
Love
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Never
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a
strange disorder.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
Believe
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Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves
ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by
the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
Heart
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast
anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Love
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the
other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with
him?
Me I
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To understand is to forgive.
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I
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is
also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
Peace
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Heart Beautiful
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.
Nature
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Death Nature
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Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are
beyond it.
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Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little
about everything.
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The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
Heart
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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between
our nature... and the thing which pleases us.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business,
without entertainment, without care.
Business
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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.
Believe
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Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged
have different effects.
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Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a
strange disorder.
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