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Biography - Blaise Pascal:

French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées


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Source: Pensées

Wikisource - Œuvres complètes de Blaise Pascal (fr) 



The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

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Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Das Herz verfügt über eine Vernunft, von der der Verstand nichts weiß.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

French
Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées



See also 

See also...



A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

What goes against the heart, the head does not let in.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation

The heart has mysteries which no reasoning can penetrate.
Guy de Maupassant

Reason does not know the interests of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims



Quotes for: reason


Quotes

Quotes about reason:


Have courage to use your own reason!
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? / 





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Bertolt Brecht / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






All about reason...




Quotes for: heart


Quotes

Quotes about heart:


Hope stole into my heart against my will.
Jean Racine - Phèdre / 





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The long sobs
Of the violins
Of autumn
Hurt my heart
With a monotonous
Languor
Paul Verlaine / 





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde / 





With most people the heart grows old with the body.
Guy de Maupassant / 






All about heart...




Quotes

Blaise Pascal also said...


All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.
Blaise Pascal - Letters to Mr and Mlle de Rouannez / 





All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 







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