Renaissance

Blaise Pascal

1623–1662

Mathematician of the Pensées

He left fragments, not a finished apology. The heart’s reasons, and the thinking reed, are pieces of an argument about a creature who is frail and knows it. He died at thirty-nine.

In the canon

  1. The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.Pensées
  2. Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.Pensées

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