back to ideas for this text


Single Idea 6677

[from 'Pensées' by Blaise Pascal, in 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value ]

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]