Blaise Pascal Quotes About Brevity

Quotes about: Brevity

• The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Long, Letters, Leisure

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal”, p.339

• Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Distance, Light

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.83

• Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Distance, Light

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