Blaise Pascal Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

• It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Understanding, Divine

• Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Hands, Judging

• To understand is to forgive.

  Blaise Pascal

  Forgiveness, Understanding, Forgiving

• If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humble, Understanding, Monsters

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

  Blaise Pascal

  Two, Understanding, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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