Blaise Pascal Quotes

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Every side of a coin has another side.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.