"The last advance of reason is to..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.”

“When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.”

“True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.”

“Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.”

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

“Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”

“Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.”

“I think governments can't do much.”

“The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.”