What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
Blaise PascalIt is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise PascalIf man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal