Blaise Pascal Quotes

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

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

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

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

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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

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

Convictions do not imply reasons.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.