The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.


Blaise Pascal

896

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.


Blaise Pascal

896

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.


Blaise Pascal

896

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.


Blaise Pascal

896

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.


Blaise Pascal

896

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


Blaise Pascal

896

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


Blaise Pascal

896

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.


Blaise Pascal

896

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


Blaise Pascal

896

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.


Blaise Pascal

896

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.


Blaise Pascal

896

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.


Blaise Pascal

896

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.


Blaise Pascal

896

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.


Blaise Pascal

896

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.


Blaise Pascal

896

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.


Blaise Pascal

896

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.


Blaise Pascal

896

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


Blaise Pascal

896

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.


Blaise Pascal

896

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.


Blaise Pascal

896

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