"Fuller believed human societies would soon rely..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”

“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.”

“Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many thingsbeyond it.”

“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”

“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”

“If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.”

“What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.”

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.”

“My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approveDesire is death, which physic did except.”