M. de Roannez said: "Reasons come to me afterwards, but at first a thi… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

M. de Roannez said: "Reasons come to me afterwards, but at first a thing pleases or shocks me without my knowing the reason, and yet it shocks me for that reason which I only discover afterwards." But I believe, not that it shocked him for the reasons which were found afterwards, but that these reasons were only found because it shocks him.

Place: SECTION IV · ¶804
License: Public domain · Source
The text is given as in the edition, unedited.

← BackNext →Check your own quote