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Blaise Pascal

Quote of Blaise Pascal - Eloquence is a painting of thought....


Biography - Blaise Pascal:

French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Eloquence is a painting of thought.


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'éloquence est une peinture de la pensée.

German
Die Beredsamkeit ist ein Gemälde des Denkens.




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Quotes for: thought


Quotes

Quotes about thought:


Great thoughts come from the heart.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.











Quotes for: painting


Quotes

Quotes about painting:


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.





I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.





No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.





If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.











Quotes

Blaise Pascal also said...


All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.





The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.












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