Daily quote |
Blaise PascalI can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. If 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? If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. |