Pascal, Blaise

                                                                      Pensees

Sec. 4, 277


    The heart has its reasons, the mind does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. The heart, naturally loves universal being and, naturally, loves itself. As it gives itself to them, it hardens itself against the one or the other, at its will. You have kept one and rejected the other. Is it by reason you love yourself?



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