We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

—Blaise Pascal

About Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

—Blaise Pascal

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You always admire what you really don't understand.

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

—Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

—Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

—Blaise Pascal

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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measures as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

—Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed

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I believe in fate, and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life.

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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

—Norman Mailer

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