W.F. Scott

“Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some imaginary affront to his honour is the very one who knows that he is going to lose everything through death and feels neither anxiety nor emotion.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“What then is to become of man? Will he be the equal of god or the beasts? What a terrifying distance! What then shall he be? Who cannot see from all this that man is lost, that he has fallen from his place, that he anxiously seeks it, and cannot find it again? And who then is to direct him there? The greatest men have failed.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées