Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. – Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. – Blaise Pascal
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – Blaise Pascal
The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as the Vegas of the Middle East or the Venice of the Middle East or the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert – have been built in the last ten years. – George Saunders