What did Blaise Pascal mean by: Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France Copy
+ When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Hard Life, Soldier, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023February 18, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Book, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The eternal Being is forever if he is at all. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Blaise Pascal, Eternal, God, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Feraz Zeid, March 16, 2023January 10, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Humor, Philosophy, Wisdom, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Blaise Pascal, God, Happiness, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Blaise Pascal, Infinite, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. Feraz Zeid, March 12, 2023January 10, 2024, Blaise Pascal, God, Love, Miracle, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Feraz Zeid, April 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Heart, Truth, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
