Blaise Pascal Quotes on Mind (16 Quotes)



    I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

    If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ then we shall find a peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

    Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

    Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.


    It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

    Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

    Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

    Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear

    If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

    Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'

    And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit

    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.


    There are two types of mind ... the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

    It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom by thought I comprehend the world.


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