"Man's greatness lies in his power of..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
More by Blaise Pascal
“A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.”
“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
“Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.”
More on Greatness
“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”
“Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.”
“One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.”
More on Thought
“Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.”
“How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?”
“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said”