Blaise Pascal Reason Quotations

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.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

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

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

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

The war existing between the senses and reason.

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

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.

The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason