Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Whereof Pascal Cannot be Translated

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait {pas / point}."
--Blaise Pascal

(ne...point is apparently an old-fashiondy version of ne...pas, I didn't find any mention of connotations other than that)
The heart has [its] reasons
{
{which / that} reason [itself]
{
{cannot/does not/can't/is not equipped to}
{understand/explain/recognize/comprehend/know [of]}
/
knows not [of]
}
/
whereof reason knows nothing
}

--Steve and Google

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