"Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
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“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid andvigorous nutriment.”
“Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”
“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
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“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
“The only real people are the people who never existed.”
“As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.”
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“Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.”
“They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."”
“I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.”