The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Pensées, 1670
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian. He is known for his contributions to mathematics and physics, including Pascal's Triangle, Pascal's law of fluid mechanics, and the development of the early calculator known as the Pascaline.
1623–1662·lived 39 years
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Pensées, 1670
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.Pensées, Section VI, 1660
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.Pensées, 1670
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.IPerceptive
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.Pensées, 1670
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.Pensées, 1670
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.Pensées, p. 123, 1995
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.Pensées, p. 39, 1958
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.Pensées, ch. 14, Appendix: Polemical Fragments #895, 1669 [tr. Trotter, 1910]
That’s all 12 quotes by Blaise Pascal.