Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. -Blaise Pascal

 

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.


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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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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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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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The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

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