Mind Quotes by Blaise Pascal

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

— Blaise Pascal

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

— Blaise Pascal

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

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It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the…

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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference…

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“The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect…

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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the…

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“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,…

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The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach…

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God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness…

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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the…

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There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at…

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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only…

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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore…

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Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme…

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be…

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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary…

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From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is…

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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest…

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All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art…

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Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know…

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There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit…

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When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines…

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Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des…

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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday…

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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We…

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Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.…

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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps…

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The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous…

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