Blaise Pascal quote about mind from Pensées - People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
 Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670). copy citation

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Author Blaise Pascal
Source Pensées
Topic mind reason others self persuasion
Date 1670
Language English
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Note Translated by W. F. Trotter
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm

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“Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
10 People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. 11 All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none[Pg 5] more to be feared than the theatre. 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, principally when it is represented as very chaste and virtuous.” source
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