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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though los...more

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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him...more

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The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first i...more

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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought ...more

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I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed e...more

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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religio...more

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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.