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Reason Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and…
- The war existing between the senses and reason.
- Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
- It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
- The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through…
- 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…
- It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
- Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are…
- Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
- There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
- Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
- Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
- Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not…
- Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
- Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
- To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within…
- Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should…
- Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
- Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
- The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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