Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. -
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. -
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. -
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. -
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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- It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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- Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.