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Nature Quotes by Blaise Pascal

95 Nature quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the object that delights us, showing how nature can create pleasure. Pascal’s quotes also note that instinct and experience steer human nature, and that nature is always in motion, without which we would die. He urges us to contemplate nature’s vast majesty.

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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which…

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What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence…

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“Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true…

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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature…

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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a…

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“The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.”

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“Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another.…

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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of…

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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the…

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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks…

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The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from…

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Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it…

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“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But…

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All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have…

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“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point…

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Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.…

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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point…

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Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.…

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“Why should I choose to divide my ethics into four rather than six? Why should I define virtue as four, or two,…

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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest…

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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers…

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“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and…

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“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the…

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“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have…

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…