Author: Blaise Pascal

Cited by

• Stephen R. Covey (1)
  • IN: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) Non-Fiction, Psychology, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Book, France
• David Edmonds (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Book, France
• O' Brien, Flann (1)
  • IN: The Hard Life (1961) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Tout le trouble du monde vient de ce qu'on ne sait pas rester seul dans sa chambre
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• John Updike (1)
  • IN: Rabbit, Run (1960) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The motions of Grace, the hardness of the heart; external circumstances.
    FROM: Pensee 507, (1670), NULL, France
• William Bernhardt (1)
  • IN: Perfect Justice (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point (The Heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing)
    FROM: Pensees, (1670), Book, France
• Robert Charles Wilson (1)
  • IN: Burning Paradise (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Novel, France
• William Kent Krueger (1)
  • IN: Ordinary Grace (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Book, France
• Danielle Steel (1)
  • IN: A Perfect Life (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “L’amour n’a pas d’age.” Love has no age.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Hilary Mantel (1)
  • IN: Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Two errors: one, to take everything literally; two, to take everything spiritually.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Rob Thurman (1)
  • IN: Chimera (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, a feeble worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a cloaca of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe.
    FROM: PPensées, (1670), Book, France
• Lily Tuck (1)
  • IN: I married you for happiness (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts.
    FROM: Pensees (#47), (1670), Book, France
• William Krueger (1)
  • IN: Ordinary Grace (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• Robert Wilson (1)
  • IN: Burning Paradise (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    FROM: Pensees, (1670), Book, France
• Terry McMillan (1)
  • IN: I Almost Forgot About You (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts.
    FROM: Pensees, (1670), Poem, France
• James Justinian Morier (1)
  • IN: Ayesha, the Maid of Kars (1834) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Il y a plaisir d'être dans un vaisseau battu de l'orage lorsqu'on est sûr qu'il ne périra point.
    FROM: Pensées de Blaise Pascal., (1670), NULL, France
• Gabriel Chevallier (1)
  • IN: Fear: A Novel of World War I (2008) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the sea, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him.
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Book, France
• Roberto Bolaño (1)
  • IN: Antwerp (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after -- memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis -- the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? By whose command and act were this place and time alloted to me?
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Book, France
• Timothy Mo (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pesons le gain et la perte en prenant le parti de croire que Dieu est. Si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout ; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien. Pariez donc qu'il est sans hésiter. Oui il faut gager.
    FROM: Pensée #318, (1670), Book, France
• Beverly Lewis (1)
  • IN: The Fiddler (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) Fiction, Anthology Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France