Blaise Pascal Quotes: 20

• Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

• The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

• Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

• I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."(Letter 16, 1657)

  The Provincial Letters

• I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

• To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

  Pensées

• To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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• It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

• 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 will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

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• Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

• Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

• No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

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• The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

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• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

• To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

• Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

• Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

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