How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
Blaise PascalSince [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.
Blaise PascalAll I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
Blaise PascalWe view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal