Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. B
  4. Blaise Pascal
  5. Imagination

Blaise Pascal Quotes about Imagination

All Blaise Pascal Quotes Achievement Age Anxiety Appreciation Art Atheism Atheist Authority Beauty Belief Blindness Boredom Certainty Change Character Charity Christ Confusion Curiosity Darkness Death Deception Desire Dignity Doubt Duty Dying Earth Effort Eternity Evil Faith Feelings Giving Glory God Good Deeds Grace Greatness Happiness Hate Heart Heaven History Humanity Humility Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination quotes Inspirational Intelligence Intuition Jesus Joy Judging Justice Killing Kindness Knowing God Knowledge Life Logic Loss Love Lying Madness Mankind Math Mathematics Mediocrity Moderation Morality Nature Originality Pain Painting Passion Past Peace Perception Philosophy Pleasure Power Pride Progress Purpose Quality Reading Reality Religion Reputation Running Sadness Science Shame Silence Sin Sleep Solitude Soul Spring Struggle Study Style Suffering Time Truth Tyranny Understanding Unity Universe Vision War Water Weakness Winning Wisdom Writing
Imagination decides everything.

Imagination decides everything.

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

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

Blaise Pascal
Thinking, Omnipotence, Imagination

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

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 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

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

Blaise Pascal
Gratitude, Loss, Imagination

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

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

You May Also Like: