Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, th… - Blaise Pascal

Man is but a reed, the feeblest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him… But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him – the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity then consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill.

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.

I have often said the soul cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)