Blaise Pascal Quotes

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

People are not stupid.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

There is one radical distinction between different minds … that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the difference of things, others to mark their resemblances.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

By his intellect, [man] is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Thought is the measure of life.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I love the human mind.

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

The mind creates those things that exist.