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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
– Blaise Pascal

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  2. An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. – Victor Hugo
  3. Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. – Blaise Pascal
  4. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back – Blaise Pascal
  5. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  6. There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us. – Blaise Pascal
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  8. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. – Blaise Pascal
  9. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. – Blaise Pascal
  10. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
  11. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
  12. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. – Blaise Pascal
  13. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  14. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
  15. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness. – Blaise Pascal
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  17. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal
  18. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
  19. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
  20. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. – Blaise Pascal
  21. If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further. – Blaise Pascal
  22. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. – Blaise Pascal
  23. People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. – Blaise Pascal
  24. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
  25. The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. – Blaise Pascal
  26. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  27. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  28. Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty-”stupid me for going along with it. – Marni Bates
  29. I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains leaked out. Instead, I did nothing. – Cat Clarke
  30. If you tell a person about paradise,It becomes a dream.If you show a person paradise,It becomes a goal! – Gabriel Madison
  31. Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please. – Alfred Zappala
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  34. Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on. – Craig D Lounsbrough
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  38. I’d rather be a semi intelligent thinker and doer…than a highly intelligent thinker.. or an unintelligent doe – Waqas Rabbani
  39. Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you’re not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought. – Carroll Bryant
  40. I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. – Johannes Kepler

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