Blaise Pascal Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Pensees no. 680 (1658)

• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspirational, Passion

• Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Religion, Truth Is

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

• Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Native American, Religion

• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspiring, Inspirational Life

• There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Views

• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Wedding, Men

• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Memories, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Men

• Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Doubt, Facts

  Blaise Pascal, Prosper Faugère (1849). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal: Consisting of Letters, Essays, Conversations, and Miscellaneous Thoughts (the Greater Part Hertofore Unpublished in this Country, and a Large Portion from Original Mss.)”, p.132

• We never love a person, but only qualities.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Quality, Persons

  Blaise Pascal (1946). “Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion”

• We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Idols, Age

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

• All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Christian, Passion

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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