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„Visszatérni oda, ahonnan elindult, nem ugyanaz, mint soha el nem indulni.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) angol fantasy- és science fiction-író

„Lelkesebben fogom ösztönözni a dobozon kívüli gondolkodást, ha bizonyíték van arra, hogy egyátalán valamilyen gondolkodás folyik is benne.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) angol fantasy- és science fiction-író

„Ha a macskák úgy néznének ki mint a békák, rájönnénk, milyen csúnya, kegyetlen kis gazemberek ők. A stílus viszont az, amire emlékeznek az emberek.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) angol fantasy- és science fiction-író

„A képzelet történetei hajlamosak idegesíteni azokat, akiknek nincs képzelőerőjük.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) angol fantasy- és science fiction-író

„Az igazi hülyeség minden alkalommal legyőzi a mesterséges intelligenciát.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) angol fantasy- és science fiction-író

„A bölcsesség tapasztalatból származik. A tapasztalat gyakran a bölcsesség hiányának eredménye.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) angol fantasy- és science fiction-író

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“What would you say of that man who was made king by the error of the people, if he had so far forgotten his natural condition as to imagine that this kingdom was due to him, that he deserved it, and that it belonged to him of right? You would marvel at his stupidity and folly.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Rules for Definitions. I. Not to undertake to define any of the things so well known of themselves that the clearer terms cannot be had to explain them. II. Not to leave any terms that are at all obscure or ambiguous without definition. III. Not to employ in the definition of terms any words but such as are perfectly known or already explained.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! …it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation… He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher