Blaise Pascal Quotes

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.