Blaise Pascal Quotes

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

The tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.