Blaise Pascal

Pascal said a lot of amazing things... but here are a few illustrative quotes.    

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


Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.     


Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.     


Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.      


A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.