The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. – Blaise Pascal
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. – Blaise Pascal
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,