Blaise Pascal on Love
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Blaise Pascal, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #660: "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."
Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #217968: "God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love."
8 Quotes by Blaise Pascal on Love
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."
"God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love."
"As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy."
"Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity."
"Of the truths within our reach... the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but... few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason."
"It is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart, what principles he acknowledges, what things he loves; and then observe in the thing in question what affinity it has with the acknowledged principles, or with the objects so delightful by the pleasure which they give him."
"All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you."
"There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation... He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love."