Quote of Blaise Pascal - Two extremes: to exclude reason, to...

Biography - Blaise Pascal:

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

Source: Pensées

Quote

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

reason

Translation

(French, German)

Deux excès: exclure la raison, n'admettre que la raison.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Es gibt zwei gefährliche Abwege: die Vernunft schlechthin abzulegen und außer der Vernunft nichts anzuerkennen.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Quotes about reason:

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

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

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

Youth must be mastered not by force but by reason.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.”
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

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

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Blaise Pascal also said...

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

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

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

Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal

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