Blaise Pascal - Reason Quotes

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We are generally more effectually persuaded by reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those which have occurred to others.

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

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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.

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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.

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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.... There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.

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