It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
¶ (Attributed)
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist and philosopher
It appears from this, that whatever it may be of which we wish to persuade men, it is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart, what principles he acknowledges, what things he loves …
¶ (Attributed)
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.
¶ (Attributed)
Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.
¶ (Attributed)
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
¶ (Attributed)
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
[The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.]
¶ Love and Hate
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
¶ On Mind and On Style
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.
¶ Pensees (1670)
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
¶ Pensées, The Provincial Letters, #16
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that a man cannot sit still in a room.
¶ Pensées, #139 (1670)
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