"The end point of rationality is to..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

“Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.”

“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.”

“Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.”

“We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.”

“I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they remain small even at adulthood. Release them into a huge natural body of water, and they grow into their intended size. People are similar. If they live in a harsh and limiting environment, they stay small. But put them someplace that encourages growth, and they will expand to reach their potential.”

“Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.”

“We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.”