"The more intelligent a man is, the..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.”

“Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.”

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”

“Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.”

“And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!”

“I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.”

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.”

“In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.”