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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Inspirational, Life
Pensees no. 680 (1658)

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Faith, Christian
"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Blaise Pascal
Inspirational, Life, Deeds And Words
"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Men, Anxiety
"Pensées" (1669), Article VI. 46 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Time, Nature
"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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
Life, Grief, Offended You
Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.85, tredition

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Hope To Live, Arranging

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Passion, Heart
Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Heart, Perfect
"Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Two, Heaven

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Blaise Pascal
Life, Inability, Trouble

Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity". "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

Blaise Pascal
Life, Heart, Wind

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