Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal in Lettres provinciales, letter 16 (1657)
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Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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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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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

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