#ice

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#blunt #justice #our #points #subtle

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#becomes #before #divine #finite #god

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #carelessly #precipice #prevent #put

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#better #brick #creation #each #edifice

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#continue #goods #prices #remain #rise

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office. ↗

— George Pataki

#different #done #i #institutions #office

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity. ↗

— George Pataki

#budget #choice #easy #economic #economic growth

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#could #grocery #hours #i #i can

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity