From the Pensees. (Symposium: arts education from past to present).(Pascal's Pensees)(Excerpt)
Arts Education Policy Review, January, 2003 by Barzun, Jacques
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Editor's note: The selections below are excerpted from Section 1, "Thoughts on Mind and on Style," from Pascal's Pensees, translated by Jacques Barzun. [c] 2002 Jacques Barzun.
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1. The difference between the geometrical and the intuitive mind.--In the one, the principles are plain, but remote from ordinary use; so that for want of habit it is difficult to keep one's mind upon them; but if one keeps it there ever so little, one takes in the principles fully, and one must have a quite twisted mind to reason wrongly from principles so broad that it is almost impossible ...
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