Moving Quote by Suskind

“Pascal's scientific achievements, therefore, did not give him much confidence in the human condition. When he contemplated the immensity of the universe, he was…

— Karen Armstrong

“Pascal said: “One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all…

— Lettie B. Cowman

“For a moment he [Doctor Pascal] thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild, satiated…

— Émile Zola

“Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.”

— Walker Percy

“that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the…

— Sally Gardner

“Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting for the…

— Jonah Lehrer

“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“This morning, he had been doomed for a dismal eternity,but instead, standing before him was a woman giving him everything he had dreamed of…

— Michele Sinclair

“Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and over are…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional…

— Richard Wright

“The man does not remember the hand that struck him, the darkness that frightened him, as a child; nevertheless, the hand and darkness remain…

— James Baldwin