I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head (for it is only ex… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head (for it is only experience which teaches us that the head is more necessary than feet). But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Place: SECTION VI · ¶974
License: Public domain · Source
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