The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
![“You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the…” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f38/blaise-pascal-167_abhorrence_you-see-if-the-height-of-the-mercury-bar_797719.jpg)
