Blaise Pascal Quotes

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

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

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament,, and embrace it with passion.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

Americans see the world as they want it to be rather than the way it is.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.