"Imagination is the deceptive part in man,..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”

“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”

“Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?”

“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”

“It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.”

“A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.”

“Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.”

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”

“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”