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Quotes by Blaise Pascal | French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer & theologian | “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.


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


Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.


I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.


Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.


By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.


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.


People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.


Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.


I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.


Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.


Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.


People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.


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


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.


Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.


Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.


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


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.


Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.


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