#though

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #because #him #his #i

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#greatness #his #lies #man #thought

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#painting #thoughts

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#art #chance #gives #keep #removes

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#examine #find #future #occupied #our

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comprehend #encompasses #i #like #me

Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know. ↗

— Kenan Thompson

#i #know #little #never #thought

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#certainly #display #dull #eyes #may

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#alone #aura #childbirth #every #isolation

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#as far as #concerned #copying #easy #far