When I consider the small ...

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

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We are all something, but none of us are everything.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

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

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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