Full Idea
Imagination decides everything: it creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the world's supreme good.
Gist of Idea
Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good
Source
Blaise Pascal (Pensées [1662], 44 (82))
Book Reference
Pascal,Blaise: 'Pensées', ed/tr. Krailsheimer,A.J. [Penguin 1966], p.41
A Reaction
Compare Fogelin's remark in Idea 6555. I see Pascal's point, but these ideals are also responses to facts about the world, such as human potential and human desire and successful natural functions.
Related Idea
Idea 6555 We are also irrational, with a unique ability to believe in bizarre self-created fictions [Fogelin]