This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.Simone de Beauvoir
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.Simone de Beauvoir
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.Simone de Beauvoir
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
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.Blaise Pascal
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.Blaise Pascal
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.Blaise Pascal
