John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9576 Blaise Pasal 1623-1662 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 9576 |
| AUTHOR: | Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) |
| QUOTATION: | What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe! 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thoughts. Chap. x. 1. |
| Note 1. See Pope, Quotation 23. [back] |