De eeuwige stilte van deze eindeloze ruimte vervult me met angst. - Blaise Pascal

and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some imaginary affront to his honour is the very one who knows that he is going to lose everything through death and feels neither anxiety nor emotion.

We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits.
But we do not know either the existence or the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

l'silence eternal de ces espaces infinis m'effraie