Custom Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Custom Integrity Natural Nature Our Principles
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My favorite event of the season is the Costume Institute Gala at the Met in May. To that I'll wear custom Vera Wang. — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. — Charles Davenport Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. — Charlotte Ronson Copy Share Image
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
