Blaise Pascal Quotes

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Blaise Pascal

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• Deprived

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• I'm not looking to shock anyone.

  

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• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

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• One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• 'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.

  

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• Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.

  

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• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

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• A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.

  

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• Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

  

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• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  

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• Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.

  

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• I had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.

  

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• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• What the world craves today is a more spiritual and less formal religion. To the man or woman facing death, great conflict, the big problems of human life, the forms of religion are of minor concern, while the spirit of religion is a desperately needed source of inspiration, comfort and strength.

  

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  • Death
  • Religion
  • Inspiration

• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Religion
  • Trouble
  • Deprived