Blaise Pascal Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
Birthday: June 19
Death: August 19
One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
source: Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics
topic: Greatness, Men, Circles, Wretchedness, Greatness Within
