"Man governs himself more by impulse than..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!”

“The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.”

“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”

“Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman”

“My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.”

“Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.”

“The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.”

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”

“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?”