Vanity is but the surface.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

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You always admire what you really don't understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it...

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it...

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals...

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals...

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it...

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it...

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

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

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what...

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what...

The property of power is to protect.

The property of power is to protect.

The only shame is to have none

The only shame is to have none

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we...

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we...

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it...

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it...

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man...

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man...

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which...

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing....

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing....

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four...

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four...

Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage?...

Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage?...

I myself am the only friend I have

I myself am the only friend I have