Function Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Reason
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason — Paul Tillich 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 is a… — 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
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense. — Gregg Olsen Copy Share Image
Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
“Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are. — Alister E. McGrath 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
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image