Blaise Pascal Quotes on Reasoning (20 Quotes)


    Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

    It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

    Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which these who do not know the truth discover it. The heart has its own reason which reason does not know.

    Imagination cannot make fools wise but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable

    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 not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.


    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 else.

    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 reason as this disavowal of reason.

    The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.

    The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.

    The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

    It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the 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.

    The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. (La coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point)

    The war existing between the senses and reason.

    What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object - that is, God, Himself. He alone is man's veritable good, and since man has deserted Him it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature that has not been capable of taking His place for man stars, sky, earth, elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, plague, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since he has lost the true good, everything can equally appear to him as such - even his own destruction, though that is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.

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

    Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

    We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.


    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.


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