"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.”

“[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.”

“Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.”

“When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.”

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.”

“The motive power is the cause of all life.”

“The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.”

“There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.”