"Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.”

“It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.”

“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

“Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.”

“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.”

“Dreams are the children of idled minds.”

“Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.”