Reply #5: As the great French, mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, [View All]

Pascal, put it:
"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."

Looking just now at some of Pascal's other quotations, it was intriguing to find this saying, as it is similar to a point I made in another post in this thread about passivity: "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

And how about this one for predicting the so-called "butterfly effect" in weather systems, for example:

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

And how about this one, which could have been cribbed from Hunter Thompson:
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."

I can see I'm going to have to work my way through his sayings!