“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Rohinton Mistry book Family Matters
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Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July 1935)
Borrowing from Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 (published posthumously): ""Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point""
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
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Good enough. And those heartfelt reasons deserve a hearing. But when they defy reason, the meaning of living by the rule of law is that reason should prevail.
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