What did Blaise Pascal mean by: You always admire what you really don’t understand. - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France Copy
+ All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023February 18, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Human, Knowing, Misery, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023February 18, 2024, Blaise Pascal, God, Manifest, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Blaise Pascal, Accomplish, Character, Kindness, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023February 18, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Judging, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023February 18, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Purity, Source, Streams, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Blaise Pascal, Common, Familiar, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023February 18, 2024, Blaise Pascal, Confusing, Confusion, Unity, 0 - Blaise Pascal Mathematician · France
+ Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. Feraz Zeid, September 18, 2023December 29, 2023, Blaise Pascal, Death, Movement, 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