Blaise Pascal Quotes

Man is the measure of all things.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

I just can't help but see things differently.

I dream, therefore I exist.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.