Blaise Pascal Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Omnipotence, Imagination

• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

• Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Reflection, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.76

• Imagination decides everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Teacher, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Lying, Men

• Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

  Blaise Pascal

  Gratitude, Loss, Imagination

• Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Cutting, Small Objects, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

• Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Imagination, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

  Blaise Pascal

  Imagination, Needs, World

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Talking, Imagination, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

• Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

  Blaise Pascal

  Clever, Men, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Imagination, Earth

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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