Blaise Pascal Quotes on Imagination
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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. (82)
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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. (82)
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The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and rever persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.