"True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
More by Blaise Pascal
“Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.”
“Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.”
“Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.”
More on Authenticity
“What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.”
“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”