"Nature is an infinite sphere of which..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.”

“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

“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 atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"”

“Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.”

“Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

“The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.”

“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”