Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

—Blaise Pascal

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

—Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

—Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.

—Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

—Blaise Pascal

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

—Cicero

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

—Douglas Adams

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

—Albert Einstein