Blaise Pascal Quotes

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Blaise Pascal

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• The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

  

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• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

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• It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

  

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• Just, you know . . . remember that you’re lucky even if you don’t think you are. Because there’s always something you can be thankful for.

  

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• Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
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  • Prevent

• When I was growing up they used to say, “Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I’m 58 my doctor’s telling me, “Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also a dealer…

  

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  • Need

• Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Kill
  • Wicked
  • Prevent