Blaise Pascal Quotes on Humanity
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. (72)
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I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal. (339)
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The grandeur of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.
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Thought constitutes the greatness of man.
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What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm of the earth; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.
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Penser fait la grandeur de l'homme.