"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary,..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.”

“The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.”

“Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.”

“All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.”

“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.”

“To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.”