Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

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• Imagination
• Wise
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• Shame

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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.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Friends
  • Imagination
  • Wise