When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then. -Blaise Pascal

 

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.


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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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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

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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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