Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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The fragments left at Pascal's early death, gathered toward a defense of the faith. They stare without flinching at human smallness against infinite space, at the restlessness no distraction can cure, and at faith as a wager the whole person makes.