Blaise Pascal Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Style, Natural

• When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Knowing, Style

• Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Car, Style

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29

• Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Style, Sake

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.579

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