{"quotes":[{"text":"Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.","author":"Blaise Pascal","tags":["blaise-pascal","human-happiness","madness","men"],"id":6880,"author_id":"Blaise+Pascal"},{"text":"There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty.This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe.Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between wo.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["astronomy","blackness","blaise-pascal","depth","endless","enormity","frightening","great","immortal","infinity","light","nothing","pascal","science","silent","space","stars","terror","universe"],"id":78369,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["blaise-pascal","contact","insanity","kiss","mother","pascal","sin"],"id":160111,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.","author":"Blaise Pascal","tags":["blaise-pascal","christian","education","god","mathematicians","mathematics","pascal","philisophy","spirituality","student"],"id":448153,"author_id":"Blaise+Pascal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}