The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and also itself naturally, according as it gives itself to them; and it hardens itself against one or the other at its will. You have rejected the one, and kept the other. Is it by reason that you love yourself?

Place: SECTION IV · ¶806
License: Public domain · Source
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