Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — 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
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. — 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
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
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
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
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not… — 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
“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
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — 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
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
“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
