“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had...” — Blaise Pascal Quote

“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”

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

“My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

“We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.”

“How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?”

“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.”

“I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.”

“A simple proof that they are a kind of robot: if the era and civilization they live in worshipped "ugliness," they too would come to worship it. Or if this era and civilization encouraged laziness, they would begin to curse work automatically. Because they are not alive beings, but unconscious extensions of history.”