"If we examine our thoughts, we shall..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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“I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.”
“Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.”
“By thought I embrace the universe.”