"The philosophers talk to you about the..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.”

“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

“The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.”

“We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.”

“Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”

“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”