11 Blaise Pascal Quotes on Reason

Blaise Pascal quotes on reason

8. Tout notre raisonnement se reduit a ceder au sentiment. (274)

19. For knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its arguments. (282)

27. Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame. (82)

35. L'homme est un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant. (347)

39. Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. (272)

43. Notre raison est toujours decue par l'inconstance des apparences. (83)

44. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. (82)

51. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

52. The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.

53. There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.

78. Les hommes se gouvernent plus par caprice que par raison.