Blaise Pascal Mind Quotations

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

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

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.

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.

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

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind...

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

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.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.