"Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising...." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.”

“Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.”

“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.”

“Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.”

“The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.”

“If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?”

“What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.”

“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”

“There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.”