All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
enlightenment · french-moralists
Pascal
Blaise Pascal · 1623–1662 · French
Mathematician of the abyss. Diversion, the thinking reed, and the reasons of the heart.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.