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• Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

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  Found, United

  Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.56

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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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• Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

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  Looks, Want, Found

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• The best defense against logic is ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Math, Defense

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• Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

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  Men, Fool, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.222

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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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• The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

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  History, Lasts, Infinity

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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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• 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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  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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• 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.

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  Endurance, Fading, Limits

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• Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

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  Jesus, Men, Enemy

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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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  Truth, Soul, Investing

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• There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Vacuums

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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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• Faith is a gift of God.

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  Gift From God

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.215, David C Cook

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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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• Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

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  Happiness, Unions

  "Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects".

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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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• Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

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  Men, Reason, Impulse

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

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  Math, Intuition, Logic

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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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• Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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  Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

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