'The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not of' Pascal
Why Reason? If Pascal is correct, and if culture tells us to follow our hearts, then why should we reason or learn logic or order? Did you know that the first philosophers were mathematicians? That's because their aim wasn't math, but the heavens. Math was discovered on the way to understand the earth, heavens, and the One who made them. Pascal, likewise, was both a mathematician and a philosopher.
In the above quote, Pascal is not telling us not to reason, but in fact, not to follow our heart to the point of abandoning reason. For Pascal also says, 'dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical'. Rather, Pascal is reminding us of the risk of losing ourselves in intuitive or emotional thinking to the point of ignoring all reason. In his work, 'Pensees', he laments how the mathematician gets so lost in his axioms that he neglects intuition and how the intuitive mind is blind to the axioms in math that he cannot think about anything deeper than a puddle.
A person must learn to be both intuitive and mathematical. Intuition gives us our common sense, the ability to make a quick, proper decision or judgement based on very few premises. Mathematics or reason, gives us depth, the ability to make difficult decisions and judgments about things yet experienced.
According to Pascal, all that we lack is vision. The mathematician needs clarity in sight and the intuitive mind needs to turn his eye in the direction of reason. Let us focus our deceptive hearts on God and heed the words of the great Prophet Isaiah:
'Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord.' Isaiah 1:18