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Best Reason Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
- Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
- Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
- Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing…
- The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to…
- We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
- If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion…
- We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.
- The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
- The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise…
- The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and…
- What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be…
- We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
- The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
- Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
- Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it
- Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.
- The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
- It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason.
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