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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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