Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. - Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me

The eternal silence of these infinite places fills me with dread.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.

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

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts.

The source of the errors of these two sects, is in not having known that the state of man at the present time differs from that of his creation; so that the one, remarking some traces of his first greatness and being ignorant of his corruption, has treated nature as sound and without need of redemption, which leads him to the height of pride; whilst the other, feeling the present wretchedness and being ignorant of the original dignity, treats nature as necessarily infirm and irreparable, which precipitates it into despair of arriving at real good, and thence into extreme laxity.