“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

— Blaise Pascal · Wisdom quote

Thinker · 1623 – 1662

French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, author of the Pensées.

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Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We are all something, but none of us are everything.