Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
