"Tout notre raisonnement se re duit..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.”

“In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.”

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.”

“The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.”

“Human reason is by nature architectonic.”

“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone”

“Individuality is founded in feeling”

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

“. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .”