Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

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Imagination decides everything.

Imagination decides everything.

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to...

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and...

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a...

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a...

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a...

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a...

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit...

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit...

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate,...

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate,...

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost,...

True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost,...

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost,...

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost,...

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does...

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does...

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on...

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on...

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it...

Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it...

We never love a person, but only qualities.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order...

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order...

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future...

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future...