"The heart has its reasons of which..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.”

“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.”

“Law, without force, is impotent.”

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”

“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”

“All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.”

“Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.”

“I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.”

“It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.”