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The Art of Persuasion

The Art of Persuasion Blaise Pascal, french mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher (1623-1662) This ebook presents «The Art of Persuasion», from Blaise Pascal. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump direc

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“Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Good Things, Common, discriminate, Natural

“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Artificial, Presumption, Nutriment

“Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Nature, familiar, Common

“It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Extraordinary, excellence, Attaining goals

“As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Soul, Perception, Embrace The Unknown

“All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Proof, Attraction, Persuasion, Ignorance