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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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“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
― Pensees
― Pensees
“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”
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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.”
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