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Reason Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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The heart that perceives God, not just logic. Pascal’s lines point out that belief can grow from reason, custom, or inspiration, and that imagination can lift spirits even when pure logic feels harsh. He also notes that the serpent of desire can cloud clear thinking.

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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

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We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

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Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other…

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We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the…

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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them…

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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing…

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Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it

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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the…

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St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities…

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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that…

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When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and…

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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses…

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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his…

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Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age…

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What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has…

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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking…

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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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As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do…

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Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a…

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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot…

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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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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

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Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.

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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.”

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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…