What did Blaise Pascal mean by: Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France Copy
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Confusion, Unity, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. Author, November 11, 2022December 25, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Danger, Distraction, Ignorance, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. Author, June 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Common, Goodness, Nature, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. Author, June 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Anxiety, Ennui, Inconstancy, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Belief, Faith, Reason, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
To call a king “Prince” is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Hierarchy, Perception, Power, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. Author, July 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Evil, Forms, Infinite, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Blaise Pascal, Action, Application, Wisdom, 0 Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The highest art of the chess player lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do. Garry Kasparov Chessplayer · Russia
