Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
—Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed
I believe in fate, and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life.
—Ella Frank in Exquisite