What did Blaise Pascal mean by: Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France Copy
+ The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. Author, June 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Anxiety, Ennui, Inconstancy, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Conformity, Judgment, Secrecy, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. Author, September 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Deception, Morality, Secrecy, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Law, without force, is impotent. Author, June 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Force, Law, Power, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The stream is always purer at its source. Author, September 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Purity, Source, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Evolution, Legalism, Reasoning, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Author, September 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Amusement, Happiness, Recreation, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Conviction, Evidence, Faith, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
