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

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

Blaise Pascal
Love, Religion, Truth Is
Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Native American, Religion

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Inspirational, Passion

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Quality, Persons
Blaise Pascal (1946). “Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion”

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Memories, Men
Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Wedding, Men

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Inspiring, Inspirational Life

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Math, Views

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Doubt, Facts
Blaise Pascal, Prosper Faugère (1849). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal: Consisting of Letters, Essays, Conversations, and Miscellaneous Thoughts (the Greater Part Hertofore Unpublished in this Country, and a Large Portion from Original Mss.)”, p.132

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Christian, Passion
Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Idols, Age
"Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

Blaise Pascal
Love, Math, Men

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