See http://www.goodreads.com/autho.../10994.Blaise_Pascal

Which quotes speak to you?

I especially like: All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

More on the man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

I'm not sure how his Jansenist tendencies took expression. He seems, more, to be a voice of reason in the face of a growing, modernist idolatry of reason.