Quote #49

The grandeur of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.

More from Blaise Pascal

  1. The fairest man in the world is not allowed to be judge in his own cause.
  2. Le nez de Cleopatre, s'il eut ete plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change.
  3. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
  4. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reas…
  5. That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that …
  6. The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
  7. Le silence est la plus grande persecution; jamais les saints ne se sont tus. (919)
  8. There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.

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