"Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.
More by Blaise Pascal
“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”
“There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.”
“We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.”
More on Extremes
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”
“We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.”
“Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.”
More on Perception
“I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.”
“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”
“Ogni nostra cognitione prÄ«cipia da sentimÄ“ti.All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions.”