Comprehending Quote by Blaise Pascal

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

— Blaise Pascal

“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of…

— William Hazlitt

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

— Kinky Friedman

“For after all, what is man in creation? Is he not a mere cipher compared with the infinite, a whole compared to the nothing,…

— Blaise Pascal

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

— Joseph Campbell

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity;…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Earth, stars, and the vastness of space; yesterday, today and tomorrow; and the endlessly increasing knowledge of the relation of forces, present an illimitable…

— John A. Widtsoe

“For, after all, what is man in nature? ...a middle point between all and nothing...What else can he do, then, but perceive some semblance…

— Blaise Pascal